On 07/17/18 07:49, Marco van de Voort wrote:
Worse, IMHO creeping unnecessary dialect change is worse than remaining
different. The spread of codebases over the various subdialects is worse than
any
benefits these half assed extensions can ever have. It is spreading language
development thin instead of deep
Agreed.
This can be likened to the spread of globalization among cultures.
Uniqueness and charm suffer at the hand of cross-pollination.
You can go almost anywhere in the world today and find icons of Western
culture. Starbucks in Sri Lanka. McDonalds in Shanghai.
Likewise, "modern" programming languages are all converging on a common
feature set, like cultural cross-pollination.
I prefer to have a variety of dialects and paradigms to choose from (and
a variety of cultures) over a global sameness.
-Jim
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