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In article <312C9376.62BE@cbi.tamucc.edu>,
Jonathan Scott Duff  <duff@cbi.tamucc.edu> wrote:
> Glen C. Perkins wrote:
>> opinions, fight it out. The result has been a significant
>> expansion in the number of languages I use, rather than
>> just using C for everything. (Actually, the truth is,
>> it has expanded my repertoire enough that I *never* use
>> C for *anything* anymore!)
>
> Hmm... Why do you never use C anymore?  It sounds like you
> are fanaticizing over languages instead of just using the
> right one for whatever job you have at hand.

That's a little bit inflammatory...

It is probably the case that Glen uses languages that fit the
application domain better (eg. Perl for string mangling) and which
have a much lower overhead in terms of programming effort. Sure,
anything you can do in Perl can be done in C, but that doesn't mean
that it is a good idea to do so. Reusing someone else's work saves a
lot of time for most people.

Both lisp and ML are much better at handling trees of data than C
(except in a very few circumstances), and ML at least is a very strong
promoter of correct programming (ie. it catches far more common
programming errors than even the best C compiler ever could).

I still use C for many things though...

Donal.
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