How To Talk About Programming Languages

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Post by lbarrow » Sun, Jun 15, 2014, 5:58 PM UTC

How To Talk About Programming Languages
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Re: How To Talk About Programming Languages

#2

Post by mpwillson » Sun, Jun 15, 2014, 7:37 PM UTC

I think there is a missing evaluation category here. That is, does the programming language enable me to perform the task efficiently and effectively? If the language doesn't, I'm not using it, even though I might love it...

Re: How To Talk About Programming Languages

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Post by lbarrow » Sun, Jun 15, 2014, 8:27 PM UTC

mpwillson wrote: post #2

I think there is a missing evaluation category here. That is, does the programming language enable me to perform the task efficiently and effectively? If the language doesn't, I'm not using it, even though I might love it...

Yea, I went back and forth on making sort of "effectiveness" into its own category. I think it makes more sense to think of overall effectiveness as the combination of the other three categories rather than its own independent thing.