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PROG LANG QUESTIONNAIRE

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-11 1:42

0. What programming languages do you intimately know?
1. What are your preferred paradigms?
2. What software dev 'habits' piss you off?
3. Choose: Emacs, Vim, or <crap>?

Name: GNG is Not GNU 2015-09-12 21:49

>>19
r u serious - sounds like ur trolling bro..

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BlubParadox

Blub paradox is the arrogant and obnoxious naive claim by Paul Graham that certain languages are more powerful, and will always win compared to less powerful languages - but the more powerful languages are obscure and less adopted by the people. It's basically a Lisp programmer who wants Lisp to have taken over the world decades ago because Lisp Lisp Lisp is so powerful and solves all problems (while creating more problems of its own). The problem with so called Powerful Languages is that they are double edged swords. No one can read the code any more since you've redefined lisp (or ruby DSL) and made the language into incoherent write once, read never language. An example of the blub paradox is the success of Go Language or Java, which are castrated in the sense that they are not full Lisps.... but in a way castrated from making you get AIDS from lisp infection... (in lisp one can write lisp so that you can read it for a few days, then months later when a programmer tries to read your code, he get's lost in macros and recursion and pretends that functional style languages are easier to reason about since they are more mathematical, when in fact no one has proved this scientifically). Same problem exists in Haskell where you write terse declarations that don't actually show what is happening with regards to the CPU - people find it easier to reason about computers when there is state. Just look at how Go language is succeeding.

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