On 23 Jan 2008, at 08:22, stephen white wrote:
On 22/01/2008, at 9:12 AM, Landon Blake wrote:
I'm in my late twenties, and my languages of choice are Java and
Python.
(I dabble in Ruby for customization of Google SketchUp.)
I'm guessing the old farts are using C, C++ or maybe Perl?
I wonder what younger people are using?
That assumes that there is a progression in programming languages.
The reality is that us old farts got it right first time, and you
guys are buggering it all up.
Back to the metal, grasshopper. I predict the younger generation
will return to LISP and C after this current fallout over Java in
education.
The reality is there's always been 'bare metal' and there's always
been abstraction. A decent programmer would never try to write a
social networking site in assembler, or an efficient coordinate
projection library in PHP, because they'd be aware of the limitations
of each. The enemy isn't this language or that language, but rigidity
of thought and failure to understand the limits of what a language
can reasonably do.
Cheers,
A
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