On Mar 23, 2007, at 10:51 AM, Derek Kalweit wrote:
> I've written in many languages in the past 10 years-- VFP,
> VB/VBScript, ASP, PHP, VC++, VC#, Java, etc.-- they're all mostly the
> same. Most programmers can basically get the idea of what code is
> doing by reading it as long as descriptive commands/method names are
> used and no complex math/arithmetic(i.e. pointer arithmetic in c/c++).
>
> To a real software engineer, the language is irrelevant-- it's the
> design principles that are key.
Only to a certain extent. Try as I might, I just can't think in
Perl. I can manually translate it into something I can understand,
but I can't read it. Lisp is sorta the same way - it just doesn't
click in my brain. Any language that adds a ton of punctuation-type
stuff or non-standard symbols (think of Perl/PHP's use of a period
for concatenation) will not be one that I will ever be fluent in.
There are also lots of other things that tend to continuously trip
up development. One thing that most VFP developers love is the
ability to create variables as you need them - no need to declare
them first. Any language that requires that is a PITA, IMO. Sure,
there are tools to automate that process, but if a tool can do it,
why can't the language itself?
-- Ed Leafe
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