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Respectfully, I think two of your arguments stink. 2) The community. Surely there's a lot of garbage code floating around in the community, but are we going to
by jorisw 15y ago
Respectfully, I think two of your arguments stink.
2) The community. Surely there's a lot of garbage code floating around in the community, but are we going to judge a language by its community now? Perhaps the community is so big it produces a fair amount of garbage code appropriate to its size?
4) Ugly to look at. Perhaps, if you write ugly code. Again, this is about the programmer and not about the programming language. I think I write pretty code.
Disclaimer: I am a PHPer most of the time. But I realize that PHP is probably on its way out in the long run. And I agree with your two other points.
I chose ActionScript because it's a PITA to debug. Good programming languages make it easy to find your mistakes. PHP is good at that, as are a bunch of other languages.
- zaphar 15y agoRespectfully they are subjective so I expect people to disagree. However: The community is a huge part of judging a language. You'll note that I specifically said this appears to flow from the core developers out. A sentiment many in this thread appear to have shared. That to me is a danger sign. The community often is a signal regarding how the core devs of the language approach things. As for beauty it's completely and purely subjective so what looks beautiful to one person can look ugly to another.