Petition to outlaw programming languages

[Dan Neely]

If I start a petition to ban elepants and sunshines in the lounge, will CPers migrate to stack overflow? :rolleyes:

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

[lottarus]

If only he would add PHP he'd have my vote. :)

[Mark Miller]

Why, VBScript, of course!

Sincerely, -Mark mamiller@rhsnet.org

[Ygnaiih]

I like your list and Ruby, and Java.

[SeattleC]

Can you even outlaw javascript on a web-based petition? Doesn't that break causality in some way?

[Ron Nicholson]

Kamen Nik wrote:

Outlaw programming languages that threaten the safety of the American people and work counter to our way of life.

Just a quick question, but doesn't the title actually imply every programming language ever created?

Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.

[lesNZ]

Outlaw everything except machine code. Languages are for wimps.

[Thornik]

OK, got you! I think C# could be good replacement for all of 'em. Web scripting (ASP and "browser language") DOES NOT mean language cannot be "statically typed". Quite opposite: as soon as your code reaches 10KLOC, you strictly need some control above that! I spit on display seeing ugly JS code, which idiot-web-developer made working in FireFox only! And tons of errors "property/element not found" - just because it was dynamic JavaScrap. As a bonus we have already written library (Framework) to have really rich applications!

[Thornik]

hehe :) Why? Ruby is like OOP Perl. It's dynamic and also has its own niche. May be not for serious Web-development, but for scripting - why not? Java - hell knows... I have no sympathy for this simplistic language, but at least it's OOP and allows mediocres write acceptable programs. It's not evil, definitely :)

[Charles Programmer]

How are you going to outlaw protected speech? Code is expression/speech, pretty much already established. If you don't like a language, then don't use it. If your job requires it, find a better job for yourself, let those of us who would like it, have that job. As an aside, who came up with this **STUPID** idea, anyway? The FBI? :doh: