"Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language" by Brian Kerninghan (which is a very good read, whether you've programmed in Pascal or not) makes me want to write a similar essay titled "Why C is Not My Favorite Programming Language". In it, I would rant about garbage collection, variable declarations, object orientation, and arrays (and the bounds checking, size dynamics, and key hashing thereof).
I read somewhere in a Comparative Languages course that the average programmer will write the same number of lines of code per hour, regardless of the language, so it would apparently hold that languages that do more per statement would be more productive languages, thus make more productive programmers. I can't give any personal numbers, but I can say that I've used many languages at various distances from the metal, and PHP remains my favorite. (It's also true that COBOL is my least favorite, but the reasons for that should be blatent, its high-level nature notwithstanding. Sorry, Janet.) I don't see myself spending a great deal of time in my career dealing with any language that doesn't include garbage collection. No doubt that in the arena of garbage man languages, C[++] does a very efficient job of providing the tools to keep track of memory, but as previously noted, "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." PHP, Perl, Python at the backend--XHTML/XML at the front. This is where I see myself spending a great deal of my life as a coder. At least until 3D holographic displays are more commonplace.
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"Well, what is your favoriate language?
I'm all for perl, but I don't harbor half as much ill-will towards C as I do towards Java."
-Josh Narins [2004-10-20 13:28:59]
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Nic and I watched Kill Bill: Vol 1 tonight, and she loves this song by The 5, 6, 7, 8's called "I'm Blue", and I've been listening to them since. The only genre I would be able to call it is Japanese Surf Punk. Raw, no doubt, but intriguing.
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"Nobody's wondering how we did it?!"
-Nic [2004-09-23 10:14:15]
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