[Semi OT] The programming language wars

[Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 20 March 2015 at 22:55:24 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Friday, 20 March 2015 at 07:37:04 UTC, Paulo  Pinto wrote:
>> Language features should be tested with real users using 
>> scientific validation processes, instead of being blindly 
>> added to a language.
>
> There is nothing intrinsically more scientific about basing a 
> decision on a study rather than experience and judgement 
> (including aesthetic judgement), which is not to say that more 
> data cannot be useful,


Of course there is. Experience and judgement aren't measurable. 
You don't have science without numbers.

Atila