tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33103854.post2370356384600315771..comments2023-05-22T14:15:21.482+02:00Comments on Karsten Wagner's Blog: Discussion: Why do most people seem to use inferior programming-languages?Karsten Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09652404623625038743noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33103854.post-34064760625134559782012-05-14T14:51:50.000+02:002012-05-14T14:51:50.000+02:00java is the number one language in the market whic...java is the number one language in the market which gives the highest overall productivity and More Important Features of Java development - Multithreading, AWT and Event Handling, Networking, Socket and Database Connection.Java Developmenthttp://www.hiddenbrains.com/java-programming-programmers-india.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33103854.post-70266900286819809292008-11-23T06:47:00.000+01:002008-11-23T06:47:00.000+01:00Maybe Java is popular now, and C++ was ten years a...Maybe Java is popular now, and C++ was ten years ago, and Pascal ten years before that, because those were the dominant languages taught in university CS programs at the time?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33103854.post-17888300828902444912007-11-02T03:17:00.000+01:002007-11-02T03:17:00.000+01:00Have you seen factor. It's not stable ( bitrot -- ...Have you seen factor. It's not stable ( bitrot -- not crashes all the time ) yet but it is fast, source portable, high level, powerful, stack based, and has an easy to use FFI. it should stabilize in 2008. <BR/><BR/>Factorcode.orgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33103854.post-63767578207174967712007-10-18T21:23:00.000+02:002007-10-18T21:23:00.000+02:00And don't forget to read "Worse is Better".http://...And don't forget to read "Worse is Better".<BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_betterUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04257033240258782987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33103854.post-49598271208324055262007-09-28T00:47:00.000+02:002007-09-28T00:47:00.000+02:00Thanks for your nice post!Thanks for your nice post!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33103854.post-41937993694926980462007-04-05T13:44:00.000+02:002007-04-05T13:44:00.000+02:00I'm not a Common Lisp expert, but I know a lot abo...I'm not a Common Lisp expert, but I know a lot about the language. I've read Grahams 'On Lisp' and so I think I know the difference between C++ macros well (talking about the preprocessor-ones as well as the template-ones). I used the comparison to show that Lisp is in fact more easy and straightforward to use, while you have to jump thru lots of hoops to archive things which are easy to do in Karsten Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09652404623625038743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33103854.post-49977796630559265942007-04-03T01:31:00.000+02:002007-04-03T01:31:00.000+02:00I wonder if you really know Common Lisp. (If I ha...I wonder if you really know Common Lisp. (If I had a penny for every blogger who claimed to know Lisp...) Lisp's syntax is far simpler than C++'s, but that's only a superficial understanding of the language. It doesn't measure how easy it is to write a program in it.<BR/><BR/>- You compare Lisp macros to C++ macros; they're very different. C++ macros are a simple textual replacement. Lisp Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33103854.post-80665022412055911222007-03-16T08:41:00.000+01:002007-03-16T08:41:00.000+01:00Java is like Oracle - it needs enough resources to...Java <I>is like</I> Oracle - it <B>needs enough resources</B> to beat out any other languages.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33103854.post-88685260376479904392007-03-12T16:27:00.000+01:002007-03-12T16:27:00.000+01:00There's another reason here, most visible with "sm...There's another reason here, most visible with "smug $X weenies": programmers are intellectually vain and hyper-rational, so they assume that their choice of language is the rational one, and that users of other languages are therefore irrational/stupid/whatever.<BR/><BR/>It's like this: "(1) My favorite color is orange. (2) Most other people prefer non-orange colors. (3) Since I chose orange, itAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33103854.post-67852939700798199422007-03-08T14:48:00.000+01:002007-03-08T14:48:00.000+01:00To the guy pending intervention (operation):This i...To the guy pending intervention (operation):<BR/><BR/>This is not the point, smartass. The point is, why the heck would a surgeon prefer a flintrock to a scalpel?<BR/><BR/>And my answer was, and still is, that he's simply not the one to choose, but the one who pays for the intervention, and flintrocks are cheaper, not to mention that apes don't charge anywhere nearly as much as surgeons, (not Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33103854.post-83741773981631922402007-03-08T01:53:00.000+01:002007-03-08T01:53:00.000+01:00this is pure gold "I'd prefer a flint rock in the ...this is pure gold "I'd prefer a flint rock in the hands of a surgeon than a scalpel in the hands of an ape." can I use this as a quote in my next essay?<BR/><BR/>I think what you are trying to say is that you like Java because of the wholeness, i.e the whole package: IDE + Language + popularity, deployabilty , scalability...but this is all in Rails...<BR/><BR/>so at the end of the day, IF I Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33103854.post-58283583326497047752007-03-07T22:51:00.000+01:002007-03-07T22:51:00.000+01:00"The only reason for it's success in a very small ..."The only reason for it's success in a very small domain is 'Ruby on Rails'. And again it's not the language which created the success, it's a tool"<BR/><BR/>This totally contradicts what you said before. In the last article you tout that a language's success is based on its' libraries(tools) and IDEs(tools). Now you state that Ruby is only successful because of its' tools.Amos Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12577222147730623011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33103854.post-42788799508298454062007-03-07T22:21:00.000+01:002007-03-07T22:21:00.000+01:00Hi again.Please don't take the grammatical critiqu...Hi again.<BR/>Please don't take the grammatical critique as an insult or attack. People pick up on such things and it reduces the effectiveness of the article so I have no problem feeding this back to you.<BR/><BR/>It's still a good article though even with my reservations.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12738931781931554419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33103854.post-21690898723293013192007-03-07T09:40:00.000+01:002007-03-07T09:40:00.000+01:00Anyone who doesn't code in assembly all the time i...Anyone who doesn't code in assembly all the time is a total fag.<BR/><BR/>;)<BR/><BR/>Nice article. I'm tired of code-snobs who probably lack creativity and skill. If you select an obscure language, you're free to use it poorly--and few will have the knowledge to criticize your use of it. If I needed an operation, I'd prefer a flint rock in the hands of a surgeon than a scalpel in the hands ofAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com