C++ is for conformists and trend-followers lacking in enough critical thinking skills of their own to investigate and adopt better tools for the job.
So you're saying it's perfect for someone who thinks that Perl is ossifying, then?
Nice try, but CLOS dates from 1988.
Functional programming is just a subset of OO programming.
In exactly the same sense, OO programming is a subset of functional programming. An object is nothing more than a tuple of functions each of which has a hidden parameter.
But then, you seem to think that C++ is an OO language, which makes me wonder if you actually understand Modern C++ (in the Alexandrescu sense) at all.
To be fair, also bitter about pre-ANSI C++ and people who say "C/C++" as if it's a thing, which is understandable.
I've yet to meet a Framework that makes things as clean and usable as they claim.
Webmachine with OTP.
Javascript. [...] concurrency
Hahaha! Oh, man! Hahahahaha! That is hilarious.
Javascript's idea of "concurrency" is a less convenient version of single-threaded code.
I have a nice recipe for braised rabbit in a capsicum sauce. Delicious!
Yet C is still in wide use, and is still useful for endless applications. Its bastard offspring C++ is another "fractal of bad design," but it's everywhere.
I used to make the same complaint about C++ until I seriously used it for something.
hiphop/hack might not be pure PHP but if you're a PHP programmer, you can figure out and pick up hiphop and/or hack.
Which just goes to show that there's hope for PHP programmers yet.
Don't piss on Javascript.
There's nothing wrong with pissing on Javascript, but it's unfair to mention it in the same breath as PHP. PHP sucks across the board, but Javascript has very specific and identifiable flaws. You can think of Javascript as the living embodiment of Sturgeon's Revelation.
So, for example, Javascript has quite clean variable semantics (borrowed from Scheme, no less!), making it almost a functional language, but then drapes it in an unwieldy function syntax which discourages you from using it as such. Somewhere inside Javascript you can tell that there's a pretty nice scripting language trying desperately to get out. (Hell, membranes are almost elegant.)
I wish that PHP had redeeming features like that. The only thing it ever had going for it was that 15 years ago it had a better Apache binding than any other language, making it the superior choice to CGI.
Perl.
Well if that's your criteria, write everything in Haskell.
It was Polybius, right?
I punched those numbers into my calculator, it makes a happy face.
Actually, most significant C or C++ projects are done without an IDE.
Most significant C++ projects are done in Visual Studio or Xcode.
Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers. -- Leonard Brandwein
