Re: Re: How do you choose your programming language ?

On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 13:28 +0000, ik_5 wrote:
> You are missing then a lot about Pascal :)
> This is not a new Pascal, but rather the development of the language.
> If you would have worked with Borland Pascal (Not Turbo Pascal), this
> changes where less different then what you think on them now.

First of all, I am hereby officially registering my profound objection
to the failure of this mailing list to host a violent and highly
interesting religious war over the relative merits of languages like
Haskell and O'Caml, which brought to the table novel concepts, which are
missing from languages like C++ and Pascal.

Now, if we are discussing Pascal, why not argue about more recent
languages from Niklaus Wirth's heritage, such as Modula-2, Modula-3 (not
designed by Wirth himself) or Oberon-2?

Another principle more worthy of arguing about:
Which language scales better for giant projects (and I mean projects
with 10^7 lines of source code) and why?  I am fed up with sandbox level
quibbles about the relative merits of

if (boop)
then begin;  beep; end;
else begin;  baap; end;
endif;

versus

if (boop) { beep; } else { baap; }

or 

if (boop)
  beep
else
  baap

After you have spent time typing the above stuff, it no longer matters
which is easier to write.  What matters is the difficulty to maintain
those pieces of smelly brown matter.  And this is the bane of large
scale projects.

Let's argue like grown-up persons having wicked fun in the most naughty
nightclubs while trying to conquer the wilderness over there instead of
toddlers who play in the sandbox under the protective eyes of nannies
from the neighborhood nunnery.
                                            --- Omer
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