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Is there a single-word descriptor for languages that depend on so much syntax just to get going? Pascal, C, ALGOL, D, etc. Verbose, maybe, but that's not as fu
by caslon 5y ago
Is there a single-word descriptor for languages that depend on so much syntax just to get going? Pascal, C, ALGOL, D, etc.
Verbose, maybe, but that's not as fun as some of the catchy words there are to insult languages that aren't.
- jakear 5y agoBoilermaker language. As in: you make a bunch of boilerplate. And also you get your beer but you’re liable to get a shot in the foot with it. (This is all off the top of my head)
- zelphirkalt 5y agoMaybe ad-hoc, as in "not planned ahead well at the time of designing and thus needing lots of fixes for edge cases" or perhaps inelegant as in "requiring many concepts as opposed to something like Smalltalk, which fits on a post card".
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