From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dexen deVries To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:54:36 +0100 Message-ID: <1935679.1iL4WXyixP@coil> User-Agent: KMail/4.9.3 (Linux/3.7.0-rc6-l47; KDE/4.9.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <2522920406.enqueue@as-laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Subject: Re: [9fans] c++ Topicbox-Message-UUID: e0d7e3f6-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thursday 22 of November 2012 09:38:06 Dan Cross wrote: > In the big scheme of things, absolutely none of this matters. Whethe= r one > programs in Java, C, Go, COBOL or 370 assembler doesn't really make a= ny > difference; one could die tomorrow, and would anyone care what langua= ge > s/he programmed in? really? This world has bigger problems than tha= t. >=20 > Programming languages are tools; nothing more. (...) that assumes any programming language is (at best) a constant or linear= factor=20 in problem solving time and complexity. some circles hold opinion that = more=20 powerfull programming languages provide polynominal or exponential fact= or. aside of that, in various publications number of bugs is found to corre= late=20 with line counts or similar metrics, making a more concise language a n= et win. --=20 dexen deVries [[[=E2=86=93][=E2=86=92]]] Reality is just a convenient measure of complexity. -- Alvy Ray Smith