On 12/3/20, Bakul Shah <ba...@iitbombay.org> wrote: > > Finally, I very much doubt he would have liked C! > I had an electrical engineering friend, back at university, who used array subscripts in C because he couldn't get his head around pointers. Like me, his migration was from Pascal to C.
I would prefer a Modula-2 derived language for code I need to share with others (that's about all code, in my tradition), but Go is a good alternative, although I'm not missing it right now, having decided to punish my colleagues by using their own choice: PHP. I'd like to find a community that discusses the pros and cons of programming notations in an objective fashion, rather than the more common approach to solve some immediate problem with time to market as the only actual target criterion. I guess that is like Science Fiction, it keeps slipping into Fantasy. A revised version of "A Discipline of Programming" could provide a pretty sound foundation for that kind of discussion, in my opinion. Go seems to be taking steroids, at the moment, and I have no preference past it. It's a shame, because a lot of great design was spent on Go. I don't think anything really valuable was rejected, but a lot was included that opened far too many doors, in my opinion, of course. Lucio. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T3fd028fcf2eeb24c-Mc2558e37824facff420258c8 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
