27 Sep
2014
27 Sep
'14
8:10 a.m.
On Sep 26, 2014, at 9:23 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 09/26/2014 01:13 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
But that was Dijkstra?s point. Reliability is not helped by having lots of features.
Having 7 ways to do something is not better than having one way. (This is why I stopped
using Perl and use Python instead ? ?there is more than one way to do it? is not a
language design principle I consider a recommendation.)
paul
I taught COBOL exactly once (our department chair
believed that each
teacher should be able to teach every course). When I started my first
lecture, on the blackboard was Djikstra's quote:
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind.
It's teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense."
I have an alibi.
Dijkstra's illiteracy, Fred?
Seriously, what language in 1960 offered hierarchical data structuring?
"Special-names"? Choice between use of binary or decimal numeric
representations?
The list of langauge features is very long.