On 2009-12-16, J Kenneth King <ja...@agentultra.com> wrote: > The language doesn't encourage anything. It's just a medium > like oil paints and canvas. A painting can be good or bad > despite the medium it is constructed on. The skill of the > painter is what matters.
Technically, oil paints do encourage a certain kind of painting. They can be layered on top of old paint easily, and they dry slowly, allowing you to slowly "build up" a painting in layers, and create effects with texture. If you try doing thse things with watercolors, and you'll probably be discouraged. I think a programming language does encourage a certain kind of code. Good code in one language can be poor in another. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
