Re: on Perl

On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:10:10 -0000 (UTC)
candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Muttley@dastardlyhq.com <Muttley@dastardlyhq.com> wrote at 14:51 this Tuesday
(GMT):

On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 14:00:16 +0200
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:

On 16/04/2024 12:58, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

It has also been used since circa 1999 as the embedded language of
the FreeBSD boot loader, another constrained environment.  In the
end Forth proved too unpopular, few people touched it, and it is
being replaced with Lua now.
 

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People who have used Forth a lot tend to be very enthusiastic about it,

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Tbh most people who use a language a lot tend to promote it over others they

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don't know. Ask any Python, C++, Java, C# dev what the best language is and
90% of the time they'll say the language they use. For Rust probably 99.99%
but that seems to be becoming more of a cult than a language.

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Agreed, it feels like everyone is praising Rust.

Having looked at Rust I do wonder what the fuss is about. Sure the unsafe
blocks are a nice idea - hopefully something similar might be added to C++ at
some point instead of the useless niche crap the committee keeps throwing in
at the moment - but other than that its a pretty ugly syntax with a lot of
the functionality of C++ missing.