Sujet : Re: Do Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs Require Linux?
De : bowman (at) *nospam* montana.com (rbowman)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 30. May 2024, 22:33:28
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On Thu, 30 May 2024 05:55:26 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
Java -- long-winded, and yet curiously lacking in some elementary
functionality (e.g. unsigned ints, typedefs).
My initial project when I was learning Java was ill-advised. I was working
with the Atmel AVR family and decided to do a simple assembler/simulator.
Bit twiddling isn't Java's forte.
Python -- remarkably small language core, yet great extensibility from
the well-chosen features in that core.
While I've used Python for small projects for years I've only really dug
into in the last year or so. I'm impressed. I'm enough of a nerd to really
appreciate the stack machine that runs the byte code, but then I do have
Forth in my background.
Some of my education like when a typo inadvertently turned a list
comprehension into a generator. Interesting critters.
C++ -- very powerful, but way too complex in order to keep things
“efficient”.
I haven't kept up with it but there were a lot of pitfalls in its early
days. Stroustrup said something like 'C++ tries to prevent you from
shooting yourself in the foot but if you do you blow your whole leg off.'
PHP -- just sad.
It was okay for what it originally was meant for -- Personal Home Pages.
Some things take on a life of their own like the Beginners' All-purpose
Symbolic Instruction Code.