How Nested Functions Work, part 2

[bearophile]

Jeremie Pelletier:

> Java is mostly popular in academic contexts, it may have nice features 
> but I don't see it getting popular among systems programmers anytime 
> soon. C# and .NET have some nice features but just like Java they lack 
> what systems languages provide: liberty.
> 
> Its no wonders why companies like amazon and ebay write their web 
> applications in systems languages, they get so much load that using 
> anything else would require them to spend way more on more servers than 
> they would on more competent programmers. Google also wrote their own 
> web server program to get every ounce of performance they can out of a 
> machine, something no scripting or "safe" language can achieve.
> 
> In the end, different languages have different target audiences, dynamic 
> languages target mostly the people who don't want to learn the full 
> semantics of how computer works and quickly develop small to medium 
> scale applications. Systems languages target programmers who understand 
> how the computer works at its lowest levels and write real time or large 
> scale programs.
> 
> That's what most people I met who praised CS around failed to grasp: 
> there are no "wrong" languages, and no "better" languages. But when you 
> spent 3+ years of your life studying something your ego can get the best 
> of you when you're given something else :)

[Please allow me a bit of flamebait once in a while]
I am sorry, but most things written in this post are wrong :-)

Bye,
bearophile