Thursday, October 13, 2005

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bullish on a walk and you will fly head: What language to use?

The dilemma of choosing a programming language

Just before starting this blog was thinking of that famous phrase describing C + +: C

gives you shoot in the foot. C + + makes it difficult, but when you do, you blow the whole leg. (Bjarne Stroustrup)

This in turn reminds me of an email I ever got from a friend refers to this last decision, which I wish to share with all Internet.

Description Language accidentally FORTRAN USING )))))) Pie.h pie.c
task at
shot in the foot
C you shoot in the foot.
C + + You create dozens of operators to yourself and all you get shot in the foot.
you shoot on every finger of foot iteratively until you run out of fingers, then up and READ NEXT REPEAT. If you run out of bullets, you continue shooting attempts, as there are no exceptions handling capabilities.
Pascal compiler does not let you shoot in the foot.
Ada: After correctly packing your foot, while trying to load the gun, pull the trigger, aim and nonsense in the foot. When I try to find out that you can not because your foot is the wrong guy. COBOL
a COLT 45, says in PIERNA.PIE REVOLVER, THEN put in COLT.GATILLO BRAZO.MANO.DEDO, press and SOARS. COLT CARTRIDGE THEN RETURN. ZAPATO.CORDON CHECK if need be attached.
LISP (I shoot in the appendix holds the gun with that ((I shoot in the appendix holds the gun with which (((I shoot in the appendix holds the gun with which (((( I shoot in the appendix holds the gun with which ((((( you shoot in the appendix that keeps the gun with which you shoot (((((( in Appendix (...)
FORTH foot shooting himself.
Prolog You tell your program you want to shoot in the foot. The program argues how it does, but do not understand the syntax.
BASIC: nonsense in the foot with a water gun. In large systems, continue until the water covers the entire body.
Visual Basic: really only think you've shot in the foot, but you have so much fun that really does not matter if you shoot or not.
Hypertalk: Put the first bullet revolver the foot of the left leg. Answer the result.
Motif You spend days writing a UIL description of your foot, the bullet, its trajectory and intricate drawings of the ivory-handled revolver. But when you are about to pull the trigger, the gun jams. APL
you shoot in the foot, but you spend all day thinking you could have repented with fewer characters. SNOBOL
If you had success, madness in his left foot. If it fails, nonsense in the right foot. Unix
% ls dedo.o dedo.c dedo.o% rm *. O rm:. Or

No such file or directory% ls%

Concurrent Euclid You shoot on any member instead of the foot. 370
JCL You walk down the MIS and include a 400-page document detailing exactly how you want to shoot. Three years later, your foot back absolutely fried.
Paradox Not only can you shoot in the foot, your users do too. ACCESS
trying to aim the gun on your foot, but eventually manages to shoot holes all Borland distribution diskettes. Assembler
Trying shoot in the foot only to discover that you must invent the revolver, the bullet, the trigger and foot.
Modula2 After realizing that it is impossible to do with this language, you shoot in the head

Despite being a text burlesque and a bit humorous, fun presents the reality of different existing programming languages. But we go to analyze the pros and cons of each one of the most popular languages important today. Language

Features C + + has all the power
C most powerful language in the history, language is not considered a very high level, and this gives it much of the power he possesses. It is ideal for the development of low-level programs such as operating systems, BIOS, and other compilers, because the binaries are quite small and optimized (up to the programmer). Moreover, in theory, can interact with virtually any other programming language, compiler or program.
C but with an added value, the POO , which allows us to give greater organization to the software, making it an excellent language convierrte for the development of high-level software. FORTRAN
Although I accept that I am not a guru of this language, we can say that this powerful language almost obsolete, is ideal for the development of scientific systems, for all its structure and philosophy allow. Pascal
My favorite. As an advertising campaign read some of Borland: All
ease of BASIC with the power of C + + language is

highly didactic ideal for teaching, it is quite orderly. Although for some it is an advantage that this language has strict data types, for this is quite annoying but irrelevant debating this issue, which can be explained in another topic later. Great for almost everything.
BASIC language is unstructured, impractical to develop software. I do not recommend, and indeed is practically extinct as such. Currently there are versions and adaptations such as VisualBasic in different flavors.
As VB would say once: Visual BASIC
makes the programmer does a real expert novice and the expert in complete useless.
is very useful for the rapid development of graphics applications with simple interfaces. Although you can build systems rather "robust" is not practical for application development really powerful, has too many dependencies that make the application on a machine to consume computer resources.
Assembler Language mightiest of all, rarely used by programmers today, so instead the electronics, because this language allows us to handle the PC at the lowest possible level, manipulating its structure and programming.
This language can be dangerous if you do not know how to use or otherwise is well known. An example of this is the "true virus", or who could forget the legendary NATAS-BOOT, viruses that were a true work of art, thanks to advanced knowledge of the language that had the programmer.
Ideal (read necessary) for programming operating systems and compilers that require access to low-level PC.

Although you may have noticed I have not mentioned a number of existing languages, I do it because these are perhaps the most popular and commercial. The differences lie in details that are not worth exposing for now. But in the end
account, what is the best language?.
R. / There is no better language.
But how come no one is the best!, Senciallamente, because each language was designed with a specific purpose, and even today many languages \u200b\u200bsuch as Delphi, C #, and VisualBASIC.Net offer great facilities for development of each has its own unique characteristics, as well it should be noted that this is according to the programming style used.
not want to tip to use language X or e, it is not my purpose, but for those who want to know which language to use fear to say that varies according to need, although as I explained above Pascal is my favorite, I accept that currently do not use it. Instead use derived versions of it, including: Delphi, Kylix, FreePascal, Lazarus, etc. and even in spite of everything, none of the above use cases, as they also use VB in its different forms, depending on the need, Assembler, C / C + + / C # and others which are not worth mentioning. So just ask him to do the same, which surely will bring much satisfaction.