Article: What Makes a Good Programming Language?
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seaeagle



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 3:25 am    Post subject: Article: What Makes a Good Programming Language?
Something the coders out there might find interesting:

What Makes a Good Programming Language?
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There are plenty of programming languages around. David Chisnall points out the various factors that determine what makes a "good" language. But note his caveat: These principles don't always apply in any given set of circumstances!

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1. Language, Framework, and Runtime
2. Speed
3. Expressiveness
4. Readability
5. Summary
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dejai



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:44 pm    Post subject:
Thats pointless... Programming languages are made to suit a specific application they are not made to compete with each other.. The designer of C++ has refused to argue on this topic because of this exact reason. Don't learn one language learn several. Learn a language that supports class abstractions, another that supports functional abstraction, one that supports syntactic abstraction and one that supports coroutines.. Oh and one that supports parallelism .

Read learn to program in ten years.

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