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Very well said! Bjarne Stroustrup resumed with: "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."
by pif 11y ago
Very well said! Bjarne Stroustrup resumed with: "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."
- danieldk 11y agoThat quote is often cited, but it stymies the discussion. First of all because there are counterexamples. E.g. I think SQL is generally well-liked for its domain and widely used. Secondly, even if we complain about languages that are used, we can still distill and compare pros and cons. Speaking of C++ specifically - once Rust is in wider use, people will probably complain about it too. But we can describe in what regards Rust is safer objectively.
- js8 11y agoI don't like SQL. I think there could be a worthy successor to it. Something functional, typed, Haskell-like. Something that can incorporate other data processing paradigms, such as ETL, stream processing, map reduce and so on.