Null references redux

[language_fan]

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:08:50 -0400, Jeremie Pelletier thusly wrote:

> Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity: have you ever programmed in Java or C#?
> 
> Nope, never got interested in these to tell the truth. I only did C,
> C++, D and x86 assembly in systems programming, I have quite a
> background in PHP and JavaScript also.

So you only know imperative procedural programming + some features of 
hybrid OOP languages that are not even proper OOP languages.

> 
> I played with a lot of languages, but those are the ones I use on a
> daily basis. I would like to get into Python or Ruby someday, I only
> hear good things about these two. I know LUA has less overhead than
> Python

Oh, the only difference between LUA and Python is the overhead?! That's 
a... pretty performance oriented view on languages.

> I like extremes :)

If you like extremes, why have you not programming in Haskell or Coq? Too 
scary? You are often arguing against languages and concepts you have 
never used. The other people here who make these suggestions are more 
experienced with various languages.