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| From | Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> |
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| Subject | Re: Languages for different purposes (was Re: New user's initial thoughts / criticisms of Python) |
| Date | 2013-11-10 01:05 +0000 |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
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On 09/11/2013 23:24, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 09/11/2013 22:58, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> * Some languages are just fundamentally bad. I do not recommend ever >> writing production code in Whitespace, Ook, or Piet. >> > > In my last job I was forced into using Apple(42 not so obvious ways to > do it)Script. Yuck. > I'd forgotten I'd used Monk back around 1999/2000. I couldn't remember much about it so just looked it up here http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18867_01/SRE/Monk_Reference_SRE.pdf, not sure if it's double or triple yuck. Still, when you've been spoiled by Python for 10 years I guess anything else looks bad by definition :) -- Python is the second best programming language in the world. But the best has yet to be invented. Christian Tismer Mark Lawrence
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Re: Languages for different purposes (was Re: New user's initial thoughts / criticisms of Python) Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-11-10 01:05 +0000
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