August 2004 Archives

on new languages

By
Stu
on August 13, 2004 8:05 AM |

This is an essay based on a Slashdot post in August.

Paul Graham, inventor of Yahoo! Stores and LISP dude, suggests that great hackers program in Python. Naturally, chaos has ensued in the fanbase of other languages.

I think he's just promoting that developers learn more than one programming language. I can dig that. I don't agree with equating intelligence with choice of programming language. Things are harder than that, particularly in a large company.

Continue reading on new languages.
« July 2004 | Main Index | Archives | October 2004 »

Search

About this Archive

This page is an archive of entries from August 2004 listed from newest to oldest.

July 2004 is the previous archive.

October 2004 is the next archive.

Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.

About Me
(C) 2003-2008 Stuart Charlton

Blogroll on Bloglines

Disclaimer: All opinions expressed in this blog are my own, and are not necessarily shared by my employer or any other organization I am affiliated with.