Re: How Nested Functions Work, part 2

[Jeremie Pelletier]

Walter Bright wrote:
Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
That's what most people I met who praised CS around failed to grasp: 
there are no "wrong" languages, and no "better" languages.

I can't agree with that. I've used many different languages. There are 
definitely languages that are better than others.

If that weren't true, it would be pointless to even try to improve 
languages.

It's like airplane design. There are better designs and worse designs, 
and some designs so bad the airplane won't even get off the ground.

Hmm, you do make a good point. What I was trying to say is that 
different languages will serve different purposes, if there was a better 
language it would be the only one used until another one arises to take 
its place, no matter what its used to develop.

I use PHP and JavaScript on web development, shell scripts for automated 
tasks, and C/C++/D for almost everything else, maybe with a LUA/Python 
frontend to allow easy customizations and assembly for low level 
optimizations.  Of all the languages I just named its impossible to pick 
the best one since they all have their purposes, therefore making it 
impossible to also pick a worst one.