Hi Ralph, Really interesting! It turns out I read the slow goodbye to C post before! I still like C++, but Python tends to be my goto language, partially because it's what I first learned in 2013, so I'm not quite proficient with it. I quite like Java too, which I've been studying in my Open University courses.
What languages do you like? Hamish On 14/04/18 18:02, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Hamish, > > Clearing out old emails... > >> Why is it that you dislike C++ Ralph? I admit it is overcomplicated, >> but I'm quite fond of it :) > I lived through the flight of the `object-orientated programming' silver > bullet, and it never had the scope it promised. C++ jumped aboard early > on, just as Stroustrup has had it encompass every passing shiny thing > since whilst ignoring the complexity cost. > > This is old, but a reasonable summary. > http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch14s04.html#cc_language > The same author recently covered why C and not C++ again in > http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7724 which I probably linked to on another > thread in recent months. > > Cheers, Ralph. > -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-05-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
