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As Bjarne has said: "There are two types of languages, those people complain about, and those that nobody uses."
by aaronblohowiak 17y ago
As Bjarne has said: "There are two types of languages, those people complain about, and those that nobody uses."
- gwern 17y agoAt last! I finally understand why everyone complains about IIS's security holes, and not Apache's - it's because no one uses Apache.
- Daishiman 17y agoYeah, because VB6 is so much better than Python or C#. Strangely I have yet to see many complaints about C# or Java in relation to C++ or VB6, yet I'm sure as many if not more poeple have used VB6 and C++. Some languages allow you to shoot yourself in the foot more easily. Some have just better conventions and toolsets. VB6's object model just plain sucks in comparison to C#. C++ bugs are much harder to catch than Java's, and Java gives you a better toolset to find them (not that I'm a Java fan, I acutally dislike the language quite a bit). Bjarne's phrase is pretty cute. But let's be honest, technical merit has never been in a factor in a large majority of business decisions. If that were so people would drop the horrible abortion that's ABAP or COBOL for SAP applications, Sun would drop Telnet as a default dameon and use a better shell than sh as a default. But hey, it's the most popular commercial Unix, right?