Re:The Costs of Programming Language Fragmentation
by glangdale on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @09:13PM
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Welp, people can choose what they want to work on. You could invest your time in building something new (computer science?) or working on reimplementing things in the One True Language (implementation details).
Re:The Costs of Programming Language Fragmentation
by tabtab on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @12:52PM
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The industry doesn't seem to perfect any one thing; instead flickers off for the next shiney fad. For example, both OOP and FP offer (or can offer [1]) "abstraction". One can perfect their skills in OOP to solve similar abstraction problems that somebody who perfected their FP skills can solve in FP. If the industry stuck with or the other, people could use them more effectively by shere experience (including language improvements). But mixing them together in random and different ways just confuses more than it helps. (I'm talking average programmer here, not Sheldon Coopers.) It's collective Attention Deficit Disorder.
[1] Languages can and do implement one or the other poorly.
Yes, but inventing new languages and building libraries for them has nothing to do with science. Nor is science even a motivator for these endeavours.
We're not talking computer science here. We're talking implementation details.