Language debates
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Ian Darling wrote: I agree, all this language debating is pointless I agree that it can become pointless. However, there is possibly a way of rating the general usefulness of a general use programming langauge. What langauge can you use to do almost anything everything you've ever wanted to do - and more? - and do that it a productive fashion. To me, that's what the whole debate should be about! Joel Holdsworth Wanna give me a job this summer? Check out my online CV and project history[^] - now available in MSWord format![^]
Joel Holdsworth wrote: I agree that it can become pointless No, the so called "debate" *is* pointless. It's little more than a competition to see if superstition or ignorance make the better argument. A language is a tool, mastering several languages, countless different technologies and techniques and knowing when to use them is the hallmark of a professional developer. A professional mechanic knows you don't use a pipe wrench to bolt down a cylinder head even though a pipe wrench is capable of turning a bolt and it's not bad at hammering either. An amateur blunders around pipe wrenching everything in site because it does "almost everything". Debates are for ivory towers and universities, anyone wanting to make money as a professional developer would be well advised to spend less time debating and more time learning.
"A preoccupation with the next world pretty clearly signals an inability to cope credibly with this one."
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Singularity? Nah, I read the comments: However, we do have around some assembly code. Like a kernel written in C, our C# kernel needs assembly code to handle the lowest part of the interrupt dispatch on the x86. But once the assembly code has finished, it dispatches directly into compiled C# (no C). BTW, there is some C code in the system, primarily for the debugger stub. (Emphasis added) Guess us C# programmers can't get too smug just yet ;P
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Marc Clifton wrote: Not even bothering to try google[^]??? Shame on you! He's probably using MSN Search :) I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
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Ian Darling wrote: Guess us C# programmers can't get too smug just yet Maybe .net will be built into the bios in future.
"A preoccupation with the next world pretty clearly signals an inability to cope credibly with this one."
Yeah, then it can stand for BLOATED Input/Output System...