From: Joona I Palaste <palaste@cc.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language
Date: 7 Feb 2004 20:42:30 GMT
Date: 2004-02-07T20:42:30+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c03ijm$dka$1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c718a6cf.0402071233.6d4bd847@posting.google.com
Y2KYZFR1 <jarrodhroberson@yahoo.com> scribbled the following
on comp.lang.c:
> Joona I Palaste <palaste@cc.helsinki.fi> wrote in message news:<bvvjqj$4fb$1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi>...
>> Richard Heathfield <dontmail@address.co.uk.invalid> scribbled the following
>> on comp.lang.c:
>> > Larry Hazel wrote:
>> >> Christopher Benson-Manica wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> When I need a language that's easy to use and readable, I turn
>> >>> directly to C. Don't let me stop you, though.
>> >>
>> >> C? Easy to read? You have got to be kidding.
>>
>> > Compared to the other languages in this crosspost? Damn right it's easy to
>> > read! :-)
>>
>> > I mean yes, okay, I know what you mean. Any sufficiently advanced IOCCC
>> > entry is indistinguishable from line noise. But not /all/ C programs are
>> > IOCCC entries!
>>
>> I find C harder to read than Java, and easier to read than C++. I
>> don't know about Ada, as I've never seen it. But C and C++ are a
>> breeze compared to the likes of Perl, Python and Lisp. They look like
>> C looked while I was still a BASIC programmer: a random jumble of
>> punctuation marks.
> you have obviously never even seen a Python program, since it does not
> use any punction marks. It ( and Lua ) are about as close to
> executable pseudo-code as you can get. Python ( and Lua ) is
> "comprehendable" by anyone that can read english for the most part. C
> and C++ are not.
> Python enforces rules about formatting even, so everyones Python code
> HAS to conform to the same formatting rules, thus contributing to even
> more "readibility"
You might be right about that. I know neither Perl nor Python, but I
have looked at both - and while Perl looks like a random jumble of
punctuation marks, Python is actually more readable. Not that I could
write a Python program to do anything beyond "Hello world", though -
but I think I could if I took the trouble to learn it.
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-05 22:13 Announcing new scripting/prototyping language Dave Allison
2004-02-05 22:19 ` Christopher Benson-Manica
2004-02-05 22:56 ` Larry Hazel
2004-02-05 23:40 ` Victor Bazarov
2004-02-06 15:44 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-02-06 15:49 ` Victor Bazarov
2004-02-06 16:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-02-06 16:06 ` Victor Bazarov
2004-03-04 16:40 ` Richard Riehle
2004-02-05 23:53 ` Richard Heathfield
2004-02-06 8:38 ` Joona I Palaste
2004-02-06 14:49 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-02-06 15:23 ` Martijn Lievaart
2004-02-06 19:01 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-02-06 19:02 ` Jeff Schwab
2004-02-06 21:25 ` Martijn Lievaart
2004-02-07 14:43 ` Martin Krischik
2004-02-06 18:29 ` Dan Pop
2004-02-06 19:17 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-02-07 20:33 ` Y2KYZFR1
2004-02-07 20:42 ` Joona I Palaste [this message]
2004-02-08 4:54 ` Les Cargill
2004-02-09 18:11 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-02-06 2:09 ` Les Cargill
2004-02-06 8:26 ` Preben Randhol
2004-02-06 16:23 ` Les Cargill
2004-02-06 18:15 ` Preben Randhol
2004-02-06 17:43 ` Martin Krischik
2004-03-04 16:58 ` Richard Riehle
2004-03-04 17:45 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-02-06 17:39 ` Martin Krischik
2004-02-06 1:00 ` Unforgiven
2004-02-06 3:02 ` Jack Klein
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