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Every language, including the most vile but still Turing complete abomination (I'm looking at you, mumps) has something that we can all learn from and something
by jcl 17y ago
Every language, including the most vile but still Turing complete abomination (I'm looking at you, mumps) has something that we can all learn from and something that is worth singling out for admiration.
The article might be more convincing if it didn't go out of its way to bash a language. :)
- jacquesm 17y agoYes, there was some mention of my 'hypochrisy' and 'language bias' in the comments. I highly doubt those have as much experience as I do with mumps (long story) so I'll just ignore them. As I noted above you have to really know something before you can properly hate it.
- jcl 17y agoIn which case, your request becomes "Can we stop the language bashing, unless you really know how bad the language is?" Which, of course, is useless. You might as well write an article asking people to stop writing uninformed articles. If someone writes, either he believes himself to be adequately informed or he doesn't care that he is uninformed, and in neither case will he be dissuaded by such advice.
- jacquesm 17y agoNo, but let's put the bar at basic familiarity and having programmed at least one non-trivial piece. That still leaves lots of room for uninformed rants whilst cutting out the majority of the noise.