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Yes, things used to be better. It's the decay of the youth.
by noss 17y ago
Yes, things used to be better. It's the decay of the youth.
- Tichy 17y agoNo, but maybe featuritis is how languages die, to be replaced by newer, simpler languages.
- apotheon 17y agoSometimes, the newer, simpler languages are new versions of the older, more byzantine languages. I think that's basically the Perl 6 approach, for instance. It's called "evolution", in some circles.
- maxwell 17y agoIt's like sketching with pencil. Your first version is complicated and gets a lot wrong, with stray lines all about. The final one is cleaned up and simple, yet that simplicity is a direct result of that messy progenitor.
- maxwell 17y agoSimplicity of use is what seems important, not necessarily simplicity of design. Though JavaScript is more complicated than C in the sense of having more features, those features generally result in source files that're more succinct and faster to write (since you don't have to, say, roll your own hashtables).
- mrshoe 17y agos/languages/software/g
- burke 17y agoLike small-scheme. Problem solved.