By bloid
via arcanesentiment.blogspot.com
Published: Jul 10 2008 / 07:22
In any significant program, a great deal of code is spent on two activities that have very little intrinsic interest: I/O and error handling. This makes them good targets for language design. If a language can make these two areas easier, it can remove a significant part of the accidental complexity of programs. Conversely, a language in which either is difficult is a language in which effort is wasted on uninteresting problems.
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paul_houle replied ago:
There's an interesting and controversial concept here, the idea of I/O operations that read a whole file.
"Big" languages like Java and C# require the creation of several objects to access a file, and require access to be done in a streaming mode. PHP and arc, on the other hand, let you do something like file_get_contents()
Streaming mode access is certainly better than whole-file access when files are large, but I often end up finding problems in C# and Java programs where people make mistakes with the more complex API's.
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