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

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:11:39 +0200
Omer Zak <omerz-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
> 

My favorite programing language is a nice Baseball bat. Won't give you nice gui
but will easily get rid of it. It is also easy to maintain and debug, even
after 10^7 blows ;-)


> 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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