Re: Constructive criticism
- Posted by Mike Mar 06, 2009
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The thing is, it's so easy to criticise, by merely choosing a suitable frame of reference. Nevertheless some of Critic's points are valid in my opinion. The "Unique Selling Points" of Eu in the early 90's are no longer so unique. In fact you could argue that Rob's frame of reference at the time the manual was written was static languages like C, but these days features like garbage collection and dynamic typing are standard in scripting languages, which does tend to weaken the "selling points" given in the manual.
The attractions of Eu for me are the simplicity and elegance of the syntax, its speed and low-level access, and the safety/debugging features. I guess it comes down to a subjective choice in the end. Some of the points raised by Critic seem rather contrived though - it's usually the case that there are workarounds for any particular feature that isn't present in a language, it depends on what kind of coding you're doing whether the lack of x or y is going to give you a headache, and I do wonder whether critic hasn't got too much time on his hands. 
