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If you haven't discovered issues with your language of choice then you haven't used it enough
by bsmithers 9y ago
If you haven't discovered issues with your language of choice then you haven't used it enough
- lloeki 9y agoSaying that all languages have some sort of idiomatic issues therefore there's no point complaining about language X is a fallacy that attempts to completely sidestep the issue at hand. You have to admit that although they may be Turing complete, all such languages are not pragmatically equivalent and some have significant pain points, possibly more impactful than others, otherwise we'd all code in INTERCAL and be all the merrier
- macintux 9y agoI once wrote (by hand, over 3 or 4 pages) a program to add (I think, been >20 years) two integers using a Turing machine. I can definitely attest that not all languages are equivalent.
- adamnemecek 9y agoThis statement is a platitude. A: "Kim Jong-un is bad". B: "If you haven't discovered issues with your government then you haven't lived there long enough".