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javadyan | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you quit agonizing over your choice of app stack?

It's a matter of personal preference, really. As long as you can be productive with it and ship a product, go for it. Personally, I'm disgusted by both of those languages, but you can't deny the fact that people create useful with them. After all, a weapon is only as good as the hand that wields it.

javadyan | 14 years ago | on: C++11 Makes Competitors Go Rusty

All I can say is, I can write C++ code that will not surprise me with unexpected copies, contain huge memory problems, or surprise me greatly with the memory model.Stop whining and learn to use your tools, goddamit.

javadyan | 14 years ago | on: C++11 Makes Competitors Go Rusty

You can replace C++ with almost any other mainstream language in the above paragraph and it would still hold true. Problem is, contemporary general-purpose languages are used for such a wide range of different tasks that it is simply impossible for them not to be complex (syntactically or in terms of runtime envoronment). And yes you can hide complexity behind abstractions (which our programming languages successfully do), but you cannot really eliminate it. And despite all that I see more real-world applications written in "horrible" languages like C++ or Java than in "elegant" languages like Common Lisp.

javadyan | 14 years ago | on: C++11 Makes Competitors Go Rusty

Any useful language is a freaking enormous ball of mud. Bjarne said: there are only two kinds of languages - the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

javadyan | 14 years ago | on: I want to fix programming

I believe so too. To choose an efficient algorithm, you have to know things about the input data. Even with the sorting example, this is so; e.g. if you place a certain set of constraints on the input, its possible to sort in linear time. But the compiler has no way of knowing such things, unless, of course, the language has some means of expressing constraints on the input in a manner that is digestible by the compiler...

javadyan | 14 years ago | on: I want to fix programming

Are you trying to reinvent prolog? Also, I don't really understand how a compiler for your language would actually figure out the efficient algorithms for getting the answer.

EDIT: I see there's already a bunch of people talking about prolog here. Anyway, the second question is still open :)

javadyan | 14 years ago | on: Web programs written in C++ are no big deal

I doubt that the parts of YouTube responsible for video-related heavy-lifting (transcoding, detecting copyright infringement, etc.) are written in a dynamic language like Python, Ruby or PHP or even a managed language like Java.
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