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Perhaps we should reflect on why people do indeed use his language, warts 'n all? Are you suggesting C or Haskell are without their problems? What is your defi
by osrec 8y ago
Perhaps we should reflect on why people do indeed use his language, warts 'n all?
Are you suggesting C or Haskell are without their problems? What is your definition of a "good" language?
- gizmo 8y agoGood languages are local maxima in the language design landscape. C is a good language. As is Python. And C#. There are many projects for which C or Python or C# are fine language choices. Other languages have great ideas in them, but the languages themselves are a mixed bag. Perl, Java, C++. Perl inspired Ruby. Java inspired C#. But we haven't seen a good successor to C++ yet, probably because building a systems language is much more difficult than building an interpreted/scripting language.
- bitL 8y ago> good successor to C++ Maybe D, but outside Facebook nobody really uses it.