Language design is being taken over by hackers.

Sounds to me like a man who has been stuck in his lonely and lofty academic tower bitching about why all those normal people out there just won't listen to what he says, or even agree with him.

Who does he expect to design languages well? The people who use programming languages every day, all day, and most nights too? Or the people who wear tweed jackets and wander the halls of acedemia, wonderfully free of responsibility, time pressure, budget constraints and a PHB? (/me nods respectfully to the Profs he knows who arent like this.)No no, i'll have my languages written by hackers thanks (As in C, C++, Perl, Java, even C# my new love afair). The profs don't have the best record (as in Pascal, Modula-2, Prolog, Lisp, Turing, APL, etc). I mean sure these languages all have their fine points, but writing business type apps in a reasonable timeframe for a reasonable budget doesn't seem to be one of them.


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demerphq

<Elian> And I do take a kind of perverse pleasure in having an OO assembly language...

• Update:  
I didnt read the whole paper when I first wrote this. Now I have. It includes the comment

The trend is not merely toward languages being developed as open-source projects rather than "research", but toward languages being designed by the application programmers who need to use them, rather than by compiler writers. This seems a good trend and I expect it to continue.

So it seems he agrees with me :-)


In reply to Re: "There are some stunningly novel ideas in Perl" -- Paul Graham by demerphq
in thread "There are some stunningly novel ideas in Perl" -- Paul Graham by grinder

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