basic rant
every day i code in visual basic .net i grow more and more fond of c-style languages and their delicious terseness and their symmetry and i grow more disdainful for languages who try to sound like natural language to make them easier to grok for the layperson, but in the end, like their natural language counterparts, wind up confounding common sense with their lack of consistency, and obscure the deeper workings of computers from those brave enough to plumb their depths.
but it is paying the bills right now, so this shall be my last rant and i will suffer the polyester k-mart suit of the computing world and soldier on, hoping that i don’t slide into the easy ways of vb slackerdom.
There is a great language I invented called Objective-C. Have you heard of it?
Comment by Steve — April 16, 2008 @ 4:17 am
yeah, i’ve heard that once you go mac you never go back
Comment by groggyjava — June 3, 2008 @ 1:56 pm