Knowledge of certain languages can signal cultural allegiance and socioeconomic affiliation more than technical skills. Strongly statically typed languages such as Haskell and Idris have theoretical advantages in some domains, but they are more research languages than ones that are ready for industrial use. Programmers constrained on time or money will tend not choose these first. Knowledge of such languages is often limited to the programmers who learned them in school (often elite institutions or in graduate school) or have sufficient leisure time–and access to a community–for self-teaching
You fucktards have three active threads about feminism already, stop making more of them. Go to a site on feminism if you want to “discuss” this topic so badly.
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Anonymous2015-01-21 3:40
I hate the French language, and if I want to say "anybody who speaks French is a loser", then so be it, god dammit.
When has it not been a false stereotype that python is for inexperienced programmers? The idea that the programmer is too stupid to even format their code properly without help is an integral part of the language. How much more designed for newbies can you get?
Jean Yang is PhD candidate in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). She spends her time thinking about how to design programming languages and prove that software programs are correct. For her PhD thesis, she has created a programming language, Jeeves, that automatically enforces information flow policies for security and privacy. A proponent of strongly statically typed functional languages, she made the Haskell Ryan Gosling meme to encourage more people to learn Haskell. She co-directs NeuWrite Boston, a workshop of scientists and writers.
Ari Rabkin received his PhD in computer science in 2012, from UC Berkeley. His research focused on systems and software engineering. After postdoctoral work at Princeton, he joined the private sector and works as a software engineer in the Boston area. He has done significant work on the sociology of programming languages. His paper on language adoption was awarded Best Paper at the OOPSLA 2013 conference. He is broadly interested in understanding how social and technical systems influence each other.
Can we get a schooling system with some standards?
derisive term “toy language” was being applied to the Pascal language despite its substantial industrial use.
But Pascal is a toy language! Pascal was used in schools to teach kids programming. The fact toy gets industrial use proves only manager's incompetence and greed: "they tech it to kids, so we won't have staff shortage". You can't seriously consider a verbose language without pointer arithmetics for systems programming.
You fucking faggots, the reason we dont like these threads is because is because no oneactually believes this and these threads don't do anything but rile up some seriously out of touch people. It's not because we agree with them, obviously, very few people do. A lot of these people are strawmen.
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Anonymous2015-01-22 14:19
>>5 Actually, anybody who speaks French is a loser. Even Napoleon was a loser. That is a fact of life.