On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:04:04 +0300, Andrei Alexandrescu
<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
On 3/29/11 4:37 PM, so wrote:
[snip]
I find his posts among the most informative.
I don't meant to offend anyone here but I think it's worth making a
point for your benefit and others'. If you are interested in programming
language theory, probably there are better sources of information to
use. Though I don't consider myself anywhere near an expert, my masters
thesis was on programming language theory, which gives me some amount of
perspective. "Cargo culture" would be a gross exaggeration, but much of
the knowledge disseminated by bearophile is superficially absorbed
literature that is served back semi-digested along with a hodge-podge of
personal opinions of various degrees of correctness.
The only reason I felt compelled to make this point is the (now obvious)
risk in taking such posts as a good source of information. It is is
dangerous to take non-critically the occasional enormity that sneaks in.
That's why I suggested in the past and am suggesting it again - please
don't feign expertise as some may actually fall for it.
I have no doubt great personal improvement has been made in the past
years, but the tone is still an octave above what it could be at its
best.
Thanks,
Andrei
Probably i misused the word informative, what i meant was he occasionally
brings up topics that i wasn't aware of and quite possibly i wouldn't even
if i try to browse some PL related sites. They tend to be biased on
certain languages and paradigms which leads to an hostility towards some
ideas. I would be the last one on earth that would buy something because
of a commercial, it is just a starting point.
