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Artificial languages for instructing computers to do steps of computation in order to complete tasks. They allow programmers to communicate with computers.
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What is the most orthogonal programming language?
Whatever the choice, I would strongly urge teaching a “real” language. Teaching toy languages works for some people, but for others it’s very, very frustrating due to the disconnect to the real world. …
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What do you consider the 1st principle(s) of programming?
Indirection.
It might not be obvious why this is, or even what this means. But indirection is really at the basis of all of programming.
At a more superficial glance, it only seems to touch abstract …
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When is it reasonable to create my own programming language?
Let me just quote Paul Vick, ex chief developer of the VB compiler and now working on Project Oslo and the M language:
It’s mind-bendingly, stupendously difficult to build a new language, even one th …
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"Whole-team" C++ features?
The obvious answer is const correctness: since const/volatile qualification is infectious, once one part of the code started using it, every (directly or indirectly) calling code must also be const co …
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Has any language become greatly popular for something other than its intended purpose?
C++ was originally designed as “C with classes” to facilitate object-oriented programming in C++.
Templates were then provided in a later version to enable the implementation of strongly-typed contai …
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Is there any evidence that one of the current alternate JVM languages might catch on?
Arguably, the TIOBE index isn’t a good criterion. Also, arguably some languages have already caught on. Scala and Clojure in particular seem to stick out (at least on Stack Overlflow).
I actually exp …
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What are the drawbacks of Python?
I hate that Python can’t distinguish between declaration and usage of a variable. You don’t need static typing to make that happen. It would just be nice to have a way to say “this is a variable that …
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Why aren't user-defined operators more common?
Since this feature is pretty trivial to implement, why isn't it more common?
Your premise is wrong. It’s not “pretty trivial to implement”. In fact, it brings a bag of problems.
Let’s have a loo …
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Is it wise to be going back and forth between two programming languages?
Using two languages at the same time is nothing. It’s not uncommon for programmers to use several different languages every day. Different tasks and different technologies require different languages. …
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What came first, the compiler, or the source?
This has a very clear answer, actually: Source code came first – by a big margin.
Before giving the technical details, a bit of perspective:
The first programming languages were all translated into …
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Is there any reason to use C++ instead of C, Perl, Python, etc.?
When I'm going to performance, the first and last choice is C.
And that’s where you should back up. Now, I cannot, at all, speak for server development. Perhaps there is indeed no compelling reas …