On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Venkatraman S <venka...@gmail.com> wrote: > A language is a tool to solve a problem. Each of the problem(s) has its own > characteristics, which makes us to choose one among the many languages > around - and hence the choice of the best tool to solve that problem.
I'd add that practically the best tool depends on not just technical criteria but also the tool familiarity and willingness of the developers to learn a new tool. Also, while languages can be /just/ tools to solve problems, the choice of a programming language during the learning phase greatly affects your programming skills. For example, programming abstractions are best studied by using, say, any of the Lisp family of languages but not C or C++. "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." - Abelson & Sussman _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
