From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Language ranking
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 16:23:08 -0500
Date: 2014-04-03T16:23:08-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lhkjft$8gl$1@loke.gir.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wcc38huqwq0.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com
"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message
news:wcc38huqwq0.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com...
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> Perhaps, but we are in the infancy of programming language design,
> and all of those languages have serious flaws that are independent
> of application area. Which application area doesn't benefit
> from readability? Which application area benefits from an
> error-prone language?
I bet you didn't expect everyone to semi-seriously answer those questions!
The truth is, history suggests that lousy solutions end up more successful
than truly well-designed solutions. Must be some sort of ingrained human
thing. (Makes me sad to be human. :-)
Randy.
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-02 7:38 Language ranking Simon Wright
2014-04-02 20:25 ` Simon Clubley
2014-04-03 15:05 ` Robert A Duff
2014-04-03 16:26 ` Shark8
2014-04-03 23:12 ` Robert A Duff
2014-04-03 23:24 ` Shark8
2014-04-04 13:43 ` Robert A Duff
2014-04-04 21:19 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-04-04 22:21 ` Shark8
2014-04-04 23:21 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-04-05 0:03 ` Shark8
2014-04-05 0:40 ` Robert A Duff
2014-04-03 17:13 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-04-03 23:14 ` Robert A Duff
2014-04-04 23:12 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-04-03 21:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-04-04 22:59 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-04-03 21:23 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2014-04-03 23:21 ` Robert A Duff
2014-04-04 0:43 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-04-04 1:19 ` Shark8
2014-04-04 8:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-04-04 16:42 ` Shark8
2014-04-05 7:41 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2014-04-05 9:39 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-04-05 9:45 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-04-04 3:44 ` tmoran
2014-04-04 21:14 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-04-05 2:16 ` tmoran
2014-04-04 23:17 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-04-04 3:44 ` tmoran
2014-04-04 22:37 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-04-04 22:57 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-04-04 23:25 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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