Re: OT: Programming Languages

On 11/2/24 15:44, john larkin wrote:

On Sat, 02 Nov 2024 07:44:28 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
 

On a sunny day (Fri, 1 Nov 2024 22:50:41 -0000 (UTC)) it happened Nick Hayward
<nhayward8990@protonmail.com> wrote in <vg3m01$3e15j$2@dont-email.me>:
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On Fri, 1 Nov 2024 19:57:21 +0100, Jeroen Belleman wrote:
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On 11/1/24 19:04, Cursitor Doom wrote:

You can call me old fashioned, but I still believe there's never been a
more elegant computer language than the original K&R C. You can keep
the rest; I'll stick with that.

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Agreed! All the hand-holding of later versions just get in the way.
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Jeroen Belleman

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What about C++?

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It is a crime against humanity!!!

 Most computing languages originate from programmers wanting to play
with programming because solving real-world problems - the things we
pay them to do - isn't interesting.
 In academia, they need toys and things to argue about so they keep
inventing languages. It's like economists who can't say "let the
market work, and econ 101 is all anybody needs."
 I sat in on one cs class where new languages weren't enough fun, so
the prof lectured about compiler compilers, a whole new layer of
abstraction.
 

Sorry, that should be YACC, not YASP.
Jeroen Belleman (who has seen too many software tools starting
with 'YA'.)