Re: How's dot.net doing nowadays?


C gets its look because it was designed to be minimal. ...


Maybe it was designed by and for those who hadn't learned to type yet.

I don't know whether other people will agree with
this, but I get the sense that there are really
different types of programmers.

On one end are
people with minds geared toward math, who
like terse programming languages, tend to write
low-level code, and who are fond of things like Perl.
(In a way that makes sense because such people
are often more at home with math as a language
than they are with human languages.) Those people
use C, C++, etc., and dream of some day being
hired to calculate mars mission rocket trajectories.

On the other end are people who like their code
more verbose for clarity's sake, and who enjoy the
challenge of programming in terms of abstract
thought rather than math. Those people tend to
relate more with the end product as used by a
human.

I think of the two as something like building engineers
and architects.

I needed to work a bit with C++ recently and
found it kind of fun. The case sensitivity and
semi-colons are for the birds, but the ease of
accessing memory addresses is a very interesting
strength after using VB.



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