Re:Google AI Challenge: Languages Used by the Best Programmers
by cturner on Friday December 03, 2010 @05:33AM
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> I sometimes use C
Ah - but - had you entered this, would you have choosen to use C?
My anecdotal experience (Given a problem, and C, I struggle to get things done) is that lots of people like the idea of C, have fond memories of it and occasionally play with code snippets in it. But when those people go into getting-things-done-mode they choose C++ or Java as their primary.
But there are some die-hards who think C remains a superior general-purpose lanuage to C++ and Java, who probably don't like OO, and who stick with C.
I thought the writer called them hippy to highlight this spirit of contrarianism. If that's true, though, it's a poor choice of word because it doesn't suggest a connection with either tradition or asceticism. 'Monk' would better capture that.
Ah - but - had you entered this, would you have choosen to use C?
My anecdotal experience (Given a problem, and C, I struggle to get things done) is that lots of people like the idea of C, have fond memories of it and occasionally play with code snippets in it. But when those people go into getting-things-done-mode they choose C++ or Java as their primary.
But there are some die-hards who think C remains a superior general-purpose lanuage to C++ and Java, who probably don't like OO, and who stick with C.
I thought the writer called them hippy to highlight this spirit of contrarianism. If that's true, though, it's a poor choice of word because it doesn't suggest a connection with either tradition or asceticism. 'Monk' would better capture that.