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By bloid
via databasesandlife.com
Published: Mar 27 2008 / 09:15
I constantly hear the belief that modern programming languages and environment are better than older programming languages. More productive, easier to user, and so on. It would stand to reason: nobody would make a new programming language with worse features than an already existing programming language. Or would they?
Comments
whiskeyjack replied ago:
Interesting perspective. I disagree with much of it but an interesting read.
jtheory replied ago:
Some good points, others debatable -- but it's sort of missing the big one.
New languages (and implementations of their VMs, compilers, optimizers, etc. etc.) involve a lot of new code & untested design decisions. It's never smart to try anything big with some significant outside dependency that hasn't had a chance to get properly battle-scarred yet. Whatever's latest and greatest -- use it for a mini-project or personal site, and/or wait for other folks to crash and burn trying to deploy it in some way never foreseen by the creators... and watch the language be improved as a result, watch the "gotchas" become well-documented online, and so on.
Unless you're interested in participating in the development of the language itself (or you're carefully staying in bounds of what has clearly already been done with it), you want to avoid the "new guy".
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