Andy Smith writes: > > It is almost as if one small set of metrics aren't enough to decide, > for everyone, in every case, which language should be used! > > Similarly, the idea posted in this thread to objectively quantify > every feature a language can possibly have and then see which one > has the most, so we can dub that language "the best": This ignores > the fact that people have been doing research for 50+ years into > creating the academically perfect programming language. Even if any > group of people COULD agree objectively on those metrics, what > succeeds in the marketplace of ideas (and indeed, the literal > marketplace) would not be determined by those metrics alone. >
Yep. Remember BNF/EBNF/ABNF context free grammars? John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/