On the way to work this morning I thought about a way to parse a log and
Perl come up to mind as a quick (and dirty indeed) way to get the job done).
Then I remembered about the Perl 4 book I had thrown away and that
became something as you build your toolkit along the way by keeping
tools around from small components like languages, abstractions, useful
code, etc. instead of replacing the toolkit every two years.
The eternal problem of software the way I see it is the fact the it
seems that we keep throwing away with everything we had up to that point
in time and decide to start all over again. Hardware through its
electronic components, blocks builds on top of what a previous component
did, not redesigning the whole functionality from scratch.
Efficient decoupling seems to work. So Java isn't the kitchen and sink,
but it is a lot easier to express than C++ and does a good job in help
design/implement abstractions. If you need to deal with small footprint
and have performance C/C++ are out there as Java-based microprocessors.
// asc
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.
I worked at a University for a while. The students were abysmally
crap. The courses didn't help. They did not graduate as programmers.
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