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No, there are bad programming languages. It's just that it's all of them. We have yet to develop a language which lets you tell the computer what you want it to
by mathw 6y ago
No, there are bad programming languages. It's just that it's all of them. We have yet to develop a language which lets you tell the computer what you want it to do and have the computer do it in an efficient manner without having to write test suites (which have bugs) and do manual testing (which misses things) and static analysis (which is imperfect) and do performance testing (which is hard and expensive and may or may not be able to replicate the actual performance conditions your software will experience in the real world). But this is not to say that some languages are not worse than others, because they are.
- brain5ide 6y agoWell, to be honest, we don't have any kind of language for that. It's as if these serializer-of-an-imagined-state things which we call languages are not good for communicating our intentions, or anything really. Godel or Wittgenstein for references here, probably.