Re: Language ranking

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Thu, 03 Apr 2014 19:13:38 +0200, Jeffrey Carter  
<spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> a écrit:

> On 04/03/2014 08:05 AM, Robert A Duff wrote:
>>
>> Which application area benefits from an
>> error-prone language?
>
> Anywhere increased development expense results in increased profits (DOD  
> cost-plus contracts) or where making errors and then fixing them results  
> in greater profits than not making the errors in the first place (Buy  
> our word processor! Now buy an update to fix some of the errors in our  
> word processor!)

I have another theory to explain this, in some way the opposite: anyway  
where “free as in beer” is the most (often the only one) high priority  
criteria and so you need a language which will increase the chance someone  
will make it for free and attract people who believe it's as easily done  
as said. The prerequisites for such a language are well known: write fast,  
no check, no structure, no typing, nothing looking “annoying” and which  
could stop you at any point (no compile time is a bonus too… as  
compilation may fails).


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