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From: Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please>
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Subject: Re: OT: Programming Languages
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2024 18:10:50 +0100
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On 11/2/24 15:44, john larkin wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Nov 2024 07:44:28 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
> wrote:
> 
>> On a sunny day (Fri, 1 Nov 2024 22:50:41 -0000 (UTC)) it happened Nick Hayward
>> <nhayward8990@protonmail.com> wrote in <vg3m01$3e15j$2@dont-email.me>:
>>
>>> On Fri, 1 Nov 2024 19:57:21 +0100, Jeroen Belleman wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 11/1/24 19:04, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>>>>> You can call me old fashioned, but I still believe there's never been a
>>>>> more elegant computer language than the original K&R C. You can keep
>>>>> the rest; I'll stick with that.
>>>>
>>>> Agreed! All the hand-holding of later versions just get in the way.
>>>>
>>>> Jeroen Belleman
>>>
>>> What about C++?
>>
>> It is a crime against humanity!!!
> 
> Most computing languages originate from programmers wanting to play
> with programming because solving real-world problems - the things we
> pay them to do - isn't interesting.
> 
> In academia, they need toys and things to argue about so they keep
> inventing languages. It's like economists who can't say "let the
> market work, and econ 101 is all anybody needs."
> 
> I sat in on one cs class where new languages weren't enough fun, so
> the prof lectured about compiler compilers, a whole new layer of
> abstraction.
> 

Sorry, that should be YACC, not YASP.

Jeroen Belleman (who has seen too many software tools starting
with 'YA'.)