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It's curious to me that commonly in programmer discussion, we'll say on the one hand that the programming language you use doesn't matter, while on the other ha
by yakshaving_jgt 7y ago
It's curious to me that commonly in programmer discussion, we'll say on the one hand that the programming language you use doesn't matter, while on the other hand tout the benefits of adding types and static analysis.
There are some languages where types and static analysis are part of the language.
It's paradoxical that we as an industry hold these two things to be both equal and different.
- mattip 7y agoCitation needed. I recall people saying they prefer the concise syntax and speed of development with interpreted languages that do not force type annotations and others who prefer the runtime speed and compiler warnings in a typed language. I don’t recall anyone saying they are interchangeably equivalent.
- yakshaving_jgt 7y ago- https://medium.com/@schamne/why-your-choice-of-programming-language-doesnt-matter-b15f2abb0b69 https://medium.com/@schamne/why-your-choice-of-programming-l... - https://www.codementor.io/agustinchiappeberrini/why-the-it-doesn-t-matter-what-programming-language-you-learn-aih53kaia https://www.codementor.io/agustinchiappeberrini/why-the-it-d... - https://www.quora.com/If-truly-programming-languages-dont-matter-how-come-most-of-machine-learning-development-today-is-done-in-Python-and-not-some-functional-languages-like-Haskell https://www.quora.com/If-truly-programming-languages-dont-ma... - https://spin.atomicobject.com/2015/07/15/language-doesnt-matter/ https://spin.atomicobject.com/2015/07/15/language-doesnt-mat... - https://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/advice.html https://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/advice.html The idea that programming language does not matter is a pretty commonly-held view.