In article ,
Neil Cerutti wrote:
>On 2013-12-17, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>> I would really like to see good quality statistics about bugs
>> per program written in different languages. I expect that, for
>> all we like to make fun of COBOL, it probably has few bugs per
>> unit-of-useful-work-don
In article <20131216213225.2006b30246e3a08ee241a...@gmx.net>,
Wolfgang Keller wrote:
>> > And ever after that experience, I avoided all languages that were
>> > even remotely similar to C, such as C++, Java, C#, Javascript, PHP
>> > etc.
>>
>> I think that's disappointing, for two reasons. First
(This one is also cross-posted, to apologize to one and all
about my just-prior followup.)
I stupidly didn't remember that whatever followup I made
would also get crossposted until *after* I had kneejerked
hit "s" (send) before I noticed the warning (Pnews?) on
just how many groups it would be pos
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Robert Maas, http://tinyurl.com/uh3t <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> the importance of naming of functions.
>
Lisp is *so* early a language (1960?), preceeded mainly only by Fortran
(1957?)?,
and for sure the far-and-a
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Waylen Gumbal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Sherman Pendley wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> >
>> > > PLEASE DO NOT | :.:\:\:/:/:.:
>> > > FEED THE TROLLS | :=.' - - '.=:
>> >
>> > I don't think Xah is trolling here (contrary to his/her habit)
>> > but posing an
