Geoffrey Alan Washburn writes:
Why don't I try educating "him"? Because I don't have time to teach
people things they really should have learned elsewhere? Because I don't
really have time for a debate I'll never win? Because people have an
unfortunate tendency to stick to their chosen ideology regardless of the
quality of the argument? Until people go out and start learning and using
other languages and tools, I doubt there is much I can do to convince them
of anything because there is no shared context. Furthermore, until
someone has actually tried doing something different and found it lacking,
they have no argument. So making uneducated claims about the utility of
C, without knowing anything else, means you've already lost the argument.
I was a professional Haskell & ML programmer for 2 years, and also did one
project in Erlang. Am I qualified to be educated by you? Can you tell me at
least one thing you cannot be done in C but can be in these (or similar)
languages? Except for tail-recursion, please.
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Regards,
Tianran Chen
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