Form: Quote Commentary

–“Despite all the effort that has gone into it, it doesn’t look like programming language design has any real compounding power.”– John Carmack

(Exactly. I only care about the ease of writing under the different models: linear, functional, object-oriented (simulation), and now whatever we’re going to call ‘training’. And the availability of frameworks that both constrain programmers and save us from writing plumbing. I started programming in the early seventies. And every advancement that’s mattered to me consists of increasingly offloading the problem of memory management. The improvements from text editors and commanded line compliers to the relatively magical contemporary IDE is more influential than language development. And I’m not a fan of JS+Interpreter or anything else that doesn’t give me a compiler. 😉 Personally, I like stringy languages that allow me to create dynamic code. But that’s because I work in applications applications not chips, drivers, or operating systems. Uncle Bob is right about Clojure butit’s pretty hard to argue with the friendliness of Python. 😉 And yes I know I’m odd for loving lisp and Php.)