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The fact that this is apparently not painfully obvious is almost as pathetic as the fact that people actually try to use it to justify programming languages tha
by blackhole 15y ago
The fact that this is apparently not painfully obvious is almost as pathetic as the fact that people actually try to use it to justify programming languages that reduce the lines of code instead of learning how to write code that isn't terrible. A giant, bloated codebase written in erlang is still a giant, bloated codebase.
That isn't to say erlang or any other language isn't worth learning (they are), its just that no language can save you from bad programming.
- tikhonj 15y agoI don't think the argument is that some language will completely "save you from bad programming" but rather that it will encourage bad programming less some other language. Some languages like Java require more lines of code and provide less mechanisms for dealing with complexity than other language (say Erlang), which means that you're more likely to write bad code in Java than Erlang. All languages are equal, but some are more equal than others.