Re: direction
Although i do not feel this is the proper platform for Language Wars, allow me
to throw in my 2 cents worth.
As a veteran programmer of over 20 years, i have learned and use so many
different languages it would make one's head spin. I firmly believe that any good
programmer has his "handful of tools". No single language is inherently better or
worse than another. Each language that i use has it's strong points and its
weaknesses. I choose which language to use depending on the process i need to
perform and the environment in which i need to work in.
I would never hitch my career to a single language just as i could never stand
to eat only lobster day after day. Euphoria, like APL or J, has certain things
that it does very well. Each also has some things that are necessarily "wordy" to
perform. I tend to string my applications together using functions and code
snippets from several languages all working together for one single efficient
piece of code.
Whatever suits the conditions, or whatever you are comfortable programming with
will become your tool of choice for the given assignment. But a GOOD programmer
has many tools available and makes his choices accordingly.
We're not talking Good Vs. Evil - we're talking Coke Vs Pepsi.
<<otterdad steps off the soap box>>
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