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Your comment makes me wonder if this is localized issue, or a more general anti-pattern in polyglot programming. The pattern being: "push my favorite language i
by sophacles 15y ago
Your comment makes me wonder if this is localized issue, or a more general anti-pattern in polyglot programming. The pattern being: "push my favorite language into the other ones I use". It may or may not be covered by "you can write FORTRAN in any language", or some sort of corollary to Greenspun's 10th law.
- web_chops 15y agoActually, this is one of the reasons why some of the new languages pick a popular older language's syntax and coding style. Example, most static typed languages follow C syntax (C++,Java, C#) because most of them expect the programmers to migrate from the older language. This makes the migration much smoother. And when the syntax does differ, programmers tend to overestimate the complexity of the newer language (most C++ programmers complain a lot about Objective-C's syntax initially).