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From: Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist?
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 11:59:38 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2013-07-06T11:59:38-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb70fca7-8b70-49ec-bc31-0a51df04a675@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kr9khq$iqn$2@dont-email.me>

On Saturday, July 6, 2013 11:41:32 AM UTC-6, Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> On 07/06/2013 12:04 AM, Dufr wrote:
> 
> The worse the language, the greater the number of posts it will have giving code 
> examples and problems and solutions. A poorly designed language has more 
> "gotchas" and inconsistencies, leading to a greater proportion of its users 
> encountering difficulties with the language and posting problems encountered, 
> and a greater number of posts illustrating useful "tricks" needed to use the 
> language successfully.


I agree -- this is why PHP is so popular in web-searches (e.g. the TIOBE Index), because the language is FULL of gotchas and inconsistencies and poor design. Like this: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=29992 -- note how the duplicating of the penultimate element is considered NOT A BUG!


  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-06 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-04  6:59 Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist? Dufr
2013-07-04  9:12 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-07-04 11:47 ` gautier_niouzes
2013-07-04 15:50   ` Bill Findlay
2013-08-27 14:34   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-27 23:18     ` Oliver Kleinke
2013-07-04 11:48 ` john
2013-07-04 14:00   ` AdaMagica
2013-07-04 14:22     ` john
2013-07-04 14:31       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-04 18:18         ` Niklas Holsti
2013-07-04 19:04           ` J-P. Rosen
2013-07-04 20:24             ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-07-04 20:36               ` Shark8
2013-07-05 21:20               ` Robert A Duff
2013-07-05 23:39                 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-08-27 14:47           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-27 23:24             ` Oliver Kleinke
2013-07-04 18:49         ` john
2013-07-04 15:49 ` Bill Findlay
2013-07-04 16:00 ` Lucretia
2013-07-04 17:59 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-07-05 21:39 ` Robert A Duff
2013-07-06  7:04 ` Dufr
2013-07-06 15:53   ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-07-06 17:41   ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-07-06 18:59     ` Shark8 [this message]
2013-07-06 18:36   ` Ludovic Brenta
2013-07-06 22:19   ` Maurizio Tomasi
2013-07-07  8:43     ` Mike H
2013-07-08 13:53   ` Marc C
2013-08-27 14:50   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-27 16:50     ` Simon Clubley
2013-08-27 17:02       ` Bill Findlay
2013-08-27 20:27       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-28 12:05         ` Simon Clubley
2013-08-27 21:08       ` Gour
2013-08-27 22:57         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-28  8:54           ` Gour
2013-08-28  9:35             ` Web-UI for Ada applications (Was: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist?) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2013-08-28 10:48               ` Web-UI for Ada applications Gour
2013-08-28 11:32                 ` Simon Clubley
2013-08-28 11:54                   ` Gour
2013-08-28 12:05                   ` G.B.
2013-08-28 16:13                     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-28 15:54                   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-28 14:08                 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2013-08-28 15:34               ` Web-UI for Ada applications (Was: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist?) Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-29  9:51                 ` Web-UI for Ada applications Jacob Sparre Andersen
2013-08-27 23:17         ` Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist? Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-27 23:37         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-27 23:40           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-28  0:04             ` Oliver Kleinke
2013-08-28  6:28           ` Simon Wright
2013-09-01  3:04           ` Maurizio Tomasi
2013-09-01  3:48             ` Shark8
2013-08-28  8:02         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-08-28  9:01           ` Gour
2013-08-28  9:55             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-08-28 10:42               ` Gour
2013-07-07  4:14 ` Patrick
2013-08-27 14:23 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2016-03-14 15:29 ` girobusan
2016-03-14 18:19   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-03-14 18:57     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-03-14 23:52       ` Randy Brukardt
2016-03-15 10:51       ` Bob Butler
2016-03-15 21:51         ` Randy Brukardt
2016-03-16 11:07           ` Bob Butler
2016-03-16 21:22             ` Ludovic Brenta
2016-03-17  1:08               ` brbarkstrom
2016-03-17  7:59               ` Bob Butler
2016-03-17  8:36                 ` gautier_niouzes
2016-03-15  9:04     ` egarrulo
2016-03-15  9:34       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-03-15  9:56         ` egarrulo
2016-03-15 10:23           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-03-15 10:31             ` egarrulo
2016-03-15 10:53               ` egarrulo
2016-03-15 13:18                 ` G.B.
2016-03-15 13:52                   ` egarrulo
2016-03-15 14:28                     ` G.B.
2016-03-15 14:31                       ` egarrulo
2016-03-17 14:59                         ` sjaniska
2016-03-15 17:50                       ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2016-03-16 15:43                     ` Jeremiah
2016-03-15 14:38                   ` G.B.
2016-03-15 17:33               ` Nasser M. Abbasi
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