13 Oct
2009
13 Oct
'09
12:19 p.m.
At Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:37:18 +0100, James Taylor wrote:
This though, can also be a bad thing - PHP got added to quite rapidly, but not in a very good manner, and as such there are various annoyances such as inconstancies in argument ordering across different libraries.
So, I say one language *can* be better then another language, and age, and forward planning and knowledge of future technologies is one of the prime factors to this.
Or designing a language that has so little syntax that whatever new programming paradigm comes along, you can just implement it in that language as what effectively amount to library functions. E.g. object oriented Common Lisp is just implemented as a bunch of Lisp macros and functions.
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