Walter Bright Wrote: > Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > "Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message > > news:hhgvqk$8c...@digitalmars.com... > >> An interesting counterpoint to the usual FP hype: > >> > >> http://prog21.dadgum.com/55.html > > > > Didn't read the original article, but the one being linked to is completely > > in line with how I feel about not just FP, but all programming paradigms, > > for example, OO: It's great as long as you don't pull a Java or (worse yet) > > a Smalltalk and try to cram *everything* into the paradigm. > > I agree, the old programming-language-as-religion problem. I first ran > into this when I read the original Pascal book, and became enamored with > it. I tried doing a modest project in Pascal using a pure Pascal compiler. > > 80% went smoothly, the other 20% spent wrestling with the nanny language > tsk-tsking consumed nearly 100% of the time spend on the project. I just > couldn't get things that had to be done, done, as the language would > shut off all the avenues. > > When I then picked up K+R C, I never wrote another line of Pascal. It so > soured me on Pascal that I never got on the later bandwagons of Modula > II, Delphi, TurboPascal, etc. Never even looked at them.
You missed out on Delphi - IMO it gives C++ a good kicking ;->