🚀 go-pugleaf

jeffn@meaddata.com (Jeff Nelson) wrote:

} The following table clearly shows that based on the number of articles
} posted on topic, the best language is Colin James III, often called cj3.
} 
}     1 1,523,713   Colin James III
}     2    73,453   basic.visual
}     3    71,298   c++
}     4    55,148   c
}     5    43,430   pascal
} 
} 
} Jokes aside, I've been examining various languages for the planned
} reimplementation of a large project.  smalltalk and lisp seems
} to be far ahead of the pack due to the existance of extrordinarily
} powerful commercial development environments, checkout IBM's VisualAge
} for smalltalk and the Franz, Inc. CLOS products.
} 
} Let me anticipate a few responses by saying that VB and VC++ are good
} for prototyping, but in my experience, they are poor at growing large
} projects once the dialogue boxes are layed out.  From what I've seen
} in such multifaceted large projects as the infamous emacs, this is
} not the case for Lisp and similar languages which are truer to the
} OO paradigm.
}                               - Jeff


I get mildly confused here. I find that comparing C++ to ST is and apple/oranges
thing. There are places where C/C++ is the *only* alternative, and other places
where using it feels a complete hinderance.

Once I faced the reality that C++ was C with object capability not a pure OO
language, the rest became ease. (buy ST).

BTW: I can't find any specs or distribution info on cj3. Please fwd same. :)

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