3 Dec
2014
3 Dec
'14
7:48 p.m.
Every programmer I know under forty loathes the mess that is Java and they
avoid it like the plague unless they're really desperate for work and
willing to be "part of the problem." I mean, unless you count Gates shills
as "programmers." Ruby seems to have displaced visual basic for the
notably green kids, while the sharper ones I've spent time with are real in
to Go because you get performance, danger and expressiveness all in one.
Good times.
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Richard Loken <richardlo at admin.athabascau.ca
wrote:
On Wed, 3 Dec 2014, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Well, given all of the criticism that's been
brought up, shouldn't we
all be programming in Ada?
And ADA seems to be pretty much dead.
I don't understand what you guys are arguing about. Any programmer that I
know who is under 40 only programs in one language: Java. The under age
40 system administrators that I know can't program in any language unless
you call python a language.
There was one prediction that really went wrong,
"I don't know what the programming language of 2000 will look like
but I know it will be called Fortran."
Tony Hoare circa 1982
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