On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Cowley Harris<[email protected]> wrote: > This guy asked a relatively simple question which I'm paraphrasing > here as "can you run Debian without perl or python", the answer is > pretty much no. > He gave his reasons for the question and his opinion on the answers he > was given. He's also started probably the most interesting thread on > this list for a while. > > As I've read it, he's not attacked anyone personally even when > disagreeing with people and yet he is being personally attacked for > his opinions. > > Well, here is my opinion, if you feel threatened enough by someone who > disagrees with you, that you must insult them, it's a sign of a weak > logic or a weak mind. It's the reaction typical of a zealot, fool or > troll and not the response of someone with some useful knowledge to > share. > > I don't agree with him that a "one programming language system" > would be "the right way to do things" or that it would lead to a > bright future of our free software world". but I'm not going to insult > him for his belief. In fact it might be a good thing that he tries > this endeavor. > > "Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people > attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, > depends on unreasonable people." GB Shaw. > > The benefits of multiple languages over a 1 language system (1LS) is > that it gives you the ability to program at the appropriate level of > the problem space. The studies show that the higher level you program > the more instructions you have per line, and yet the bugs per line > stay about the same. > The studies also show that the amount of LOC produced by programmers > of the same skill level is about the same, whether they use assembly, > c or java, and yet the amount of instructions per LOC increase with > level of the language. More productivity in the same time span is a > major advantage. > > On a personal note, I think that programmers that use different > languages can communicate in "meta-programming" terms, a hash-table is > a hash-table whether you call it a hash or a dictionary. The benefits > of a 1LS would be small in comparison to the benefits of plural > system. thank you! I thought they are kind to give me advice, but I'm wrong, they just want to laught at me, it doesn't matter, I finally know it, and maybe next time I will discover it earlier. I still insist my ideal: one language for computer programming! > > H. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > >
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