language_fan wrote: > Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:33:59 -0400, bearophile thusly wrote: > >> But lot of people will judge D against more modern languages like C#, >> Scala or Java) and not against C. > > Programmers often belong to three kinds of groups. First come the fans of > traditionally weakly typed compiled languages (basic, c, c++). They have > tried some "dynamic" or "academic" languages but did not like them. They > fancy efficiency and close to metal feel. They think compilation to > native code is the best way to produce programs, and think types should > reflect the feature set of their cpu. They believe the syntax C uses was > defined by their God. > > The second group started with interpreted languages built by amateurs > (php, ruby, python, some game scripting language etc). They do not > understand the meaning the types or compilation. They prefer writing > short programs that usually seem to work. They hate formal specifications > and proofs about program properties. They are usually writing simple web > applications or some basic shareware utilies no one uses. They also hate > trailing semicolons. > > The members of the last group have studied computer science and > languages, in particular. They have found a pet academic language, > typically a pure one, but paradigms may differ. In fact this is the group > which uses something other than the hybrid object-oriented/procedural > model. They appreciate a strong, orthogonal core language that scales > cleanly. They are not scared of esoteric non-C-like syntax. They use > languages that are not ready to take a step to the "real world" during > the 70 next years. >
That's a fancy way of saying that anyone who has not studied CS is a moron and therefore cannot understand what is good about languages, thus they lose any argument automatically. Am I right?
