What Makes A Programming Language Good

[Bruno Medeiros]

On 18/01/2011 05:20, Walter Bright wrote:
> http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2011/01/18/what-makes-a-programming-language-good/
>

"I quit being a professional programmer."

I usually avoid discussions and dismiss out of hand opinions about 
software development from those who no longer develop code (did that 
recently with my boss, to cut off a discussion). Mostly for time saving, 
it's not that I think they automatically wrong, or even likely to be wrong.

Still, I read that article, and it's not bad, there are some good 
points. In fact, I strongly agree, in essence, with one of the things he 
said: That language ecosystems are what matter, not just the language 
itself. At least for most programmers, what you want is to develop 
software, software that is useful or interesting, it's not about staring 
at the beauty of your code and that's it.
This, any language community that focuses excessively on the language 
only and forsakes, dismisses, or forgets the rest of the toolchain and 
ecosystem, will never succeed beyond a niche. (*cough* LISP *cough*)

-- 
Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer