Thursday, March 20, 2014

What languages fix...

What languages fix...  Paul Graham on a different way to describe various programming languages:
Kevin Kelleher suggested an interesting way to compare programming languages: to describe each in terms of the problem it fixes. The surprising thing is how many, and how well, languages can be described this way.
Then he posts a bunch of examples. Here's just one:
Java: C++ is a kludge. And Microsoft is going to crush us.
Hah! And he's right – these make surprisingly good descriptions for quite a number of programming languages...

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