Interesting language comparison article

[Charles]

 > IMHO that article is more making fun of languages with which
 > the author doesn't like than anything else.

Yes, but alot of his rants ring true for me.  Like whitespace and python 
, any language that makes whitespace meaningful is hard to take seriously.

 > All of the greatest engineers in the world use Emacs

So true :).


 > Emacs has the Quality Without a Name.

I think D shares this Quality.


Charlie

Tom wrote:
> In article <dv2gj0$169t$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...
> 
>>http://www.cabochon.com/~stevey/blog-rants/tour-de-babel.html 
> 
> 
> I think it's wiser to use just a subset of C++ features (the good and useful
> ones)  than to make fun of or utter than you hate the language. I do also
> dislike very C++ things and also hate other languages (as Perl for example). But
> I know they could be useful if wisely used. In the same way I actually love D, I
> do also miss features that it lacks (e.g. constness) and not because of that I
> stand against it. IMHO that article is more making fun of languages with which
> the author doesn't like than anything else.
> 
> Tom;