by Tdarcos » Mon Mar 13, 2023 12:59 am
It seems like programmers have to suffer or have a difficuly road to hoe in order to like particular languages. There a number of perfectly good programming languages that have the language constructs, syntax and features to be useful for programming, but because they're considered 'easy' programmers often dismiss them out of hand.
Pascal and Basic have kept up with the vhanges in programming such as better control structures, database access, and so on, but you don't really 'suffer' the way yo do writing C++ code on the latest standards level (C++19, I think). Or Java, or Rust - two more that are like C++ with safer constructs and garbage collection.
Garbage collection. "Real programmers do garbage collection." Only wimps use languages that provide garbage collection, or don't allow pointers, or some other thing.
The issue is not if you can do some whiz-bang language feature. The issue is whether the language provides the capacity to do the jobs you need to accomplish. Managers don't choose programming languages by feature set, they usually pick them because it's what their code base uses and it allows them to accomplish whatever business the company operates.
Persdonally, I've found QB64 Phoenix Edition an excellent tool for writing quick solutions. It;s much easier than the unintuitive unintelligble command sequences of Powershell.
It seems like programmers have to suffer or have a difficuly road to hoe in order to like particular languages. There a number of perfectly good programming languages that have the language constructs, syntax and features to be useful for programming, but because they're considered 'easy' programmers often dismiss them out of hand.
Pascal and Basic have kept up with the vhanges in programming such as better control structures, database access, and so on, but you don't really 'suffer' the way yo do writing C++ code on the latest standards level (C++19, I think). Or Java, or Rust - two more that are like C++ with safer constructs and garbage collection.
Garbage collection. "Real programmers do garbage collection." Only wimps use languages that provide garbage collection, or don't allow pointers, or some other thing.
The issue is not if you can do some whiz-bang language feature. The issue is whether the language provides the capacity to do the jobs you need to accomplish. Managers don't choose programming languages by feature set, they usually pick them because it's what their code base uses and it allows them to accomplish whatever business the company operates.
Persdonally, I've found QB64 Phoenix Edition an excellent tool for writing quick solutions. It;s much easier than the unintuitive unintelligble command sequences of Powershell.