I've not run across many languages that I considered "ugly". RPG II was one. EasyTrieve Plus is not "ugly", but I don't much like it. The newest IBM COBOL is rather nice, albeit still wordy. The first COBOL that I learned: ANSI COBOL back in the 1970s made me puke, after learning PL/I of the same era.
The main thing that I hate is a manager saying "use xyz, but refrain from using the new omega facilities". The reason being that everybody in the shop knows the basic xyz language, but is not familiar with the omega features. So I am chained down to the least common denominator for "ease of understanding" by those who simply won't learn new stuff. Case in point in my current shop, at least in the past, was not using any z/OS UNIX facilities because they were "just too esoteric and complicated". On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) < [email protected]> wrote: > In > <CAAJSdjg1jRs6DrNV7xzAftEoGcojyeGf=fvwkbdh_idvozp...@mail.gmail.com>, > on 07/03/2013 > at 07:10 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> said: > > > > http://www.itworld.com/it-management/363424/only-thing-programmers-have-fear-all-these-things > > >I say "yes" to most. #4 is being forced to learn or use some specific > >technology > > What if you consider a language to be ugly but also consider it to be > the best tool for the job? I don't care for Perl syntax, but between > the expressive power of the language and the modules available in > CPAN, I find myself using it regardless. That's not a boss telling me > that I have to - it's my own decision. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you? Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
