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Subject: Re: Language ranking
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 01:12:09 +0200
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Le Thu, 03 Apr 2014 19:13:38 +0200, Jeffrey Carter  =

<spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> a =C3=A9crit:

> 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 (D=
OD  =

> cost-plus contracts) or where making errors and then fixing them resul=
ts  =

> 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 =E2=80=9Cfree as in beer=E2=80=9D is the most (often the only one)=
 high priority  =

criteria and so you need a language which will increase the chance someo=
ne  =

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 fas=
t,  =

no check, no structure, no typing, nothing looking =E2=80=9Cannoying=E2=80=
=9D and which  =

could stop you at any point (no compile time is a bonus too=E2=80=A6 as =
 =

compilation may fails).


-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity