One of our Wanderers (think tank in Portland) wrote:
I expect that teaching Python/Perl/Ruby/Java in the 2000s will be
viewed with the same scorn in the 2030's. The problem with flavor
of the month languages is that they are passe a month later, as
better abstractions appear. Such evanescent
kirby urner wrote:
One of our Wanderers (think tank in Portland) wrote:
I expect that teaching Python/Perl/Ruby/Java in the 2000s will be
viewed with the same scorn in the 2030's. The problem with flavor
of the month languages is that they are passe a month later, as
better abstractions
At the other end, Python gives me a language I can talk to another
programmer in, and I can also run parts of the discussion on a machine.
There are other languages that do that, of course, but none that are
so easily communicated to a random other without spending more time
talking about the
kirby urner wrote:
At the other end, Python gives me a language I can talk to another
programmer in, and I can also run parts of the discussion on a machine.
There are other languages that do that, of course, but none that are
so easily communicated to a random other without spending more time
