Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

On 12.11.2024 10:53, Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org wrote:

 
In which case I'd go with a statically typed language like C++ every time
ahead of a dynamic one like python.

Definitely!

I'm using untyped languages (like Awk) for scripting, though, but
not for code of considerable scale.

Incidentally, on of my children recently spoke about their setups;
they use Fortran with old libraries (hydrodynamic earth processes),
have the higher level tasks implemented in C++, and they do the
"job control" of the simulation tasks with Python. - A multi-tier
architecture. - That sounds not unreasonable to me. (But they had
built their system based on existing software, so it might have
been a different decision if they'd have built it from scratch.)

 
C++ is undeniably powerful, but I think the majority would agree now that
its syntax has become an unwieldy mess.

Yes. And recent standards made it yet worse - When I saw it the
first time I couldn't believe that this would be possible. ;-)

Janis