If you have to learn just one programming language

[Yao G.]

Thanks for another trolling post of yours. :rolleyes: Weren't you supposed  
to stop posting?

On Mon, 31 May 2010 10:43:36 -0500, retard <re at tard.com.invalid> wrote:

> I'm not sure if bearophile or some other language advocate posted this
> already, but:
>
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/c3p8e/
> if_you_have_to_learn_just_one_programming_language/
>
> "Here are my criteria for selecting (a non domain specific) language to
> learn."
>
> "It should provide high level of abstraction so that programmer
> productivity is high. A fast running application written in C that takes
> 6 months is — in most cases — not as useful as one that can be completed
> in 1 month: programmer cost as well as time-to-market considerations."
>
> D is very close to C. The productivity is much lower than with other
> modern scripting or hybrid-functional languages.
>
> "Speed: It should be fast (should approach C in speed)."
>
> DMD is much slower than Sun Javac/Jvm 7, GNU GCC 4.5, and LLVM.
>
> "Succinct: The language should not be verbose. This is very important.
> Brevity is one reason why Python and Ruby are popular."
>
> For example the lambda syntax is terribly verbose in D compared to Scala
> or Haskell.
>
> "It should be a mature and time-tested language with active development,
> user base and lots of applications."
>
> D & DMD are unstable, badly specified, buggy and most dsource projects
> are deprecated (D1) or dead.
>
> "Platform agnostic: It should not favor or give advantage to one
> platform."
>
> DMD only works on 32-bit x86.
>
> "Code readability and maintainability: It should be relatively easy for
> authors and others to maintain existing code."
>
> Java 2-7 is very backwards compatible compared to D2.
>
> "Opensource is a fine model, but if the author doesn’t want to release
> his/her creation under open-source he/she should be able to do so."
>
> The official backend is non-free.
>
> "Has a test framework that can generate and run tests."
>
> The integrated unittest construct is a joke compared to JUnit et al.


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