Re: [computer-go] Re: which programming language is better

[Stuart A Yeates <s.yeates@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Compgo123@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Looking back we had AGOL, Pascal, prolog, LISP, Cobot, etc. Many of them 
> just simply disappeared. 
Every day I use programs written in lisp and prolog. With a single 
command I can install free open source implementations of algol on my 
machine, and Pascal support came bundled with my C / C++ / Fortran 
compiler (this is debian sarge and gcc). My prefered programming 
environment (emacs) includes basic support for all these languages.

Cobol I don't know much about.

> C/C++ is a proven language.

You're right C and C++ have been proven. Proven to be be prone to subtle 
memory bugs and proven to have flawed standard library APIs (gets, 
sprintf, etc).

I'm sure the other languages people are recommending are flawed in other 
ways. Personally I use Java, but my using it desn't prevent me from 
seeing the flaws, both in the standard and the implementations.

cheers
stuart
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