Re:“We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into Chrome”
by Retra on Thursday March 26, 2015 @02:08AM
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>I do know that a programming language is just a tool.
I'm probably going to sound very negative in saying this, but I _really_ hate it when people pull this line out like it means anything. Only in the most narrow, trite sense is a programming language "just a tool." They are the whole reason programmers exist. Language is the single most important development in human history, and computers have touched human life in irreversible and undeniably important ways.
Everything is just a tool, if you look at it the right way, and it takes a particular kind of pointlessness to opt to see the world like that.
Language is the thing that makes the genie grant your wish. If you wish with the wrong words, you get a billion dollar tombstone.
I'm probably going to sound very negative in saying this, but I _really_ hate it when people pull this line out like it means anything. Only in the most narrow, trite sense is a programming language "just a tool." They are the whole reason programmers exist. Language is the single most important development in human history, and computers have touched human life in irreversible and undeniably important ways.
Everything is just a tool, if you look at it the right way, and it takes a particular kind of pointlessness to opt to see the world like that.
Language is the thing that makes the genie grant your wish. If you wish with the wrong words, you get a billion dollar tombstone.