Ary Borenszweig Wrote: > retard wrote: > > Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:19:25 -0800, 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. > > > > The programming-language-as-religion problem exists only in your > > imagination. > > You don't have an idea how many times I heard the phrase "Please, > please, let this work" out of a programmer's mouth in front of a computer.
But thats not to the God of Languages, thats to the God of Demonstrations...