RE: How do you choose your programming language ?

I am not going to start a long discussion (although its interesting) since I 
don't have
the time.
However, reading back your comments, you imply that C is good because of 
portability
,etc... system calls, etc... FOSS, etc.., static linking...
Anyway, all of these worth nothing if the software is distributed and there is 
a major
recall because of bugs such as range checks rouge pointers, etc... the usual...
Better use a high level language that restrict more than being flexible and 
even less
efficient because of that and save you the cost of recalls.
I am talking about the bottom line, which is revenues, cost to develop, market 
and
time to market which in todays still backward approach are not integrated fully
into a software lifecycle and timeline.
Anyway, some of our doctoral students in the faculty are working
on this integration. Maybe in a few years it will become more clear...


Regards,
        tzahi. 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:hackers-il-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Shlomi Fish
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> Subject: Re: [hackers-il] How do you choose your programming 
> language ?
> 
> On Monday 21 November 2005 15:44, Tzahi Fadida wrote:
> > I used to love to learn languages, but as time goes by I find
> > that if I don't use a language I forget too much to just come back
> > and start programming in it. For example, cobol, I used to know it
> > by heart and a while ago someone offered me to do some cobol
> > job but because I didn't have confidence in my ability after all
> > these years I had to turn it down.
> > So now, I will only learn things I am about to use.
> >
> > btw, I don't think delphi is an emulation of C++. C++ was a
> > compromise and I don't like it at all. However, java and 
> delphi are unique
> > and they come with certain rules of thumb that let you feel
> > secure that they will help you get the job done.
> > Of course, the last few months I am programming in C since
> > it's a requirement and I came to realise that C, although, 
> error prone
> > a lot more than high level languages, mostly you would prefer it
> > because of the efficiency factor and is worth the extra effort and
> > risk (the risk of failure at the client and recalls). 
> However, I don't
> > advocate the use of C for direct user applications or any 
> GUI related
> > applications, applications that don't need to be very efficient.
> >
> 
> Hi Tzahi!
> 
> We had this discussion before:
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hackers-il/message/4104
> 
> In it, I tried to tell you that there are many other reasons 
> one would prefer 
> using C (ANSI C, C/C++, ObjC, etc.) over Java and possibly 
> other languages 
> besides "efficiency". This has motivated me to write the 
> essay "When C is the 
> Best?":
> 
> http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/when-c-is-best/
> 
> I publicised it on OSNews:
> 
> http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=12189
> 
> And in turn it hit the rest of the blogosphere at the time:
> 
> http://www.google.com/search?q=%22when+c+is+the+best%22&ie=UTF
-8&oe=UTF-8

Note that I have some problems with the essay, that are mentioned on the page. 
And some others were pointed out by some of the less mis-guided comments.

Please stop implying that C would only preferable when performance is 
critical. Maybe it's for you, but it's not for me and it's not for many of 
the other people who use C.

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish

> Regards,
>       tzahi.
>

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