Comments on: Best Language http://blog.generationjava.com/roller/bayard/entry/best_language Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:27:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: Steve http://blog.generationjava.com/roller/bayard/entry/best_language#comment-406 Steve Fri, 01 Nov 2002 08:08:49 +0000 http://blog.generationjava.com/roller/bayard/entry/best_language#comment-406 Hmm, I find this a difficult question. I'm a java coder + the limitations are regularly painful. It's normally difficult to express something with beauty and simplicity. Don't get me started on the multifarious libraries that over-complicate what ought to be simple tasks.<br/><br/>I'm not a scheme coder, but having read SICP a few times I like it intellectually. It's so clean and simple, but also so flexible and powerful. But as I said, I've never used it in anger.<br/><br/>C (once you learn to tie knots other than a noose) is fairly loverly. Again it's simple and flexible. I've used it in a little anger at uni and although it's hard to begin with, it soon grows on you.<br/><br/>C++ is a muckup that made C much harder to understand and gained little with the introduction on near-OO. Hmm, I find this a difficult question. I’m a java coder + the limitations are regularly painful. It’s normally difficult to express something with beauty and simplicity. Don’t get me started on the multifarious libraries that over-complicate what ought to be simple tasks.

I’m not a scheme coder, but having read SICP a few times I like it intellectually. It’s so clean and simple, but also so flexible and powerful. But as I said, I’ve never used it in anger.

C (once you learn to tie knots other than a noose) is fairly loverly. Again it’s simple and flexible. I’ve used it in a little anger at uni and although it’s hard to begin with, it soon grows on you.

C++ is a muckup that made C much harder to understand and gained little with the introduction on near-OO.

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