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The New Age of Programming

Posted Jun 24, 2004 8:25 UTC (Thu) by ekj (subscriber, #1524)
Parent article: The New Age of Programming

I am sorry to sound negative, but does this article actually have a point ? Beyond the pompous title you actually end up saying very little.

Some languages are defined by ISO standards, others are not. Those that are tend to be older languages evolving slower than those who're not.

That's more or less your entire article in one paragraph.

Then you flesh it out by adding lots of blabla that we've all heard a gazillion times already, and that doesn't really inform anyone about anything. Cute-sounding but ultimately useless stuff like "languages are tools", which is obvious to anyone, or; "Different languages have their own strengths and weaknesses" which just says that different languages are different.

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The New Age of Programming

Posted Jun 24, 2004 10:27 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

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Some languages are defined by ISO standards, others are not. Those that are tend to be older languages evolving slower than those who're not.
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... and some languages, like Scheme, started out with a standard and then proliferated onto the Internet. (C++ has done this too, to an extent: see the Boost project.)

The New Age of Programming

Posted Jun 24, 2004 10:28 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

... and some people are too stupid to hit the 'HTML' button.

Sorry. :(

The New Age of Programming

Posted Jun 24, 2004 15:33 UTC (Thu) by teddylwn (guest, #4318) [Link]

That is indeed too negative, but you do have a point:
it is surprising to see such an article on lwn.
But if the author of the article would post the source of a
20-year C++ program I would gladly forgive his lack of point :-)