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What's the point? It's nice that he decided to try a couple of new languages that he'd never written any code in before, but what significance does his experie
by xiaoma 17y ago
What's the point?
It's nice that he decided to try a couple of new languages that he'd never written any code in before, but what significance does his experience of writing a trivial tool in each really have for other people? The blog post strikes me as a bit like a youtube video of somebody trying out a couple of musical instruments they haven't played before... irrelevant to people who don't know the submitter.
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- jrockway 17y agoYes, it is a worthless comparison. This specific application would look almost exactly the same in assembly language, so there is really not much to learn here. It is interesting to see that "I am switching from Perl to Ruby or Python" was something people blogged about in 2002, however.
- systems 17y agoAs simonw said, what's interesting is that people kept commenting for 7 years on this blog post. With some interesting notes * Most of them seem to be Perl folks * None of the language seem to offer anything new to solve that problem 7 years later * None of the languages converged, i.e. 7 years laters the advantages and disadvantages of each language seems to be the same