On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 6:26 AM, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > Paraphrasing liberally from his review of Far Cry 2: > "Letting the [programmer] create their own [language constructs is] > always done at the expense of proper [orthogonality, elegance, and > coherence]. Maybe sometimes I don't want to create my own [programming > language] experience. Maybe I want to have an experience that's been > carefully crafted by professional [language] designers and > [architects]. But [a] delusion has arisen that absolutely anyone can > contribute something valid, regardless of qualifications. In TV news > for example, you'll often see them pause to hear the opinion of a > seventy-five-year-old housebound racist from Lemington. And now you > get [languages] like [Lisp] that rely heavily on user-made [language > constructs]. Which I prophesise doom for, because most people are not > [language] designers, and you're just going to end up with oceans of > slurry, as indeed we have. It's like giving someone a stack of paper > and a [pen] and claiming that that's as good as the latest [New York > Times] bestseller." > > IOW, a language is usually better for having such discussions and > having a fairly coherent worldview enforced by the existence of a > managing authority.
Are we done with this discussion yet ? :) *sigh* It was a slow day yesterday and I have a funny feeling it's going to be the same today! Regardless of anyone's subjective opinions as to what was clear - I still stand by what I said. Nice comments btw Chris :) cheers James -- -- James Mills -- -- "Problems are solved by method" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
