begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 10:15:52AM -0700: > [snip] > Vernor Vinge (my best programming teacher) used to say that there was no > language you couldn't write bad code in and no language you couldn't write > good code in.
Heh. Was that before the brainfuck language? > But I still contend that languages are developed to scratch an itch, and > in selecting the language to do a job in, you should start by looking at > the nature of your itch. It's simply unrealistic to think that there is > one language (C, perl, Tcl, whatever) that scratches every itch perfectly. > > It's OK to have favorites, too ;-) Um. I agree? -- No argument. Don't act so suprised. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
