I finally understand why I'm not allowed to use Lisp

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Post by gnosis » Sun, Feb 20, 2011, 12:38 AM UTC

I finally understand why I'm not allowed to use Lisp
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Re: I finally understand why I'm not allowed to use Lisp

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Post by acangiano » Sun, Feb 20, 2011, 12:56 AM UTC

> I work in C# (worst language EVER!)

You lose all credibility right there. C# is far from the worst language ever, and a pretty decent one among mainstream object oriented languages.

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Post by city41 » Sun, Feb 20, 2011, 12:59 AM UTC

acangiano wrote: post #2

> I work in C# (worst language EVER!) You lose all credibility right there. C# is far from the worst language ever, and a pretty decent one among mainstream object oriented languages.

As soon as I read that I looked for the date of the post. May, 2007. This is before C# 3.0 was released and chances are he was even using 1.0 based on impressions from his boss.

C# isn't half bad now, but back then, I agree it was fairly crummy.

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Post by nyellin » Sun, Feb 20, 2011, 1:00 AM UTC

acangiano wrote: post #2

> I work in C# (worst language EVER!) You lose all credibility right there. C# is far from the worst language ever, and a pretty decent one among mainstream object oriented languages.

Agreed.

I would choose Python over C# for my own projects any day. However, I can't comprehend the senseless hatred that people have for C#. It is a nicer language than Java (imo) and it has very good performance. Furthermore, due to Mono, C# is no longer a closed platform.

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Post by dabent » Sun, Feb 20, 2011, 1:01 AM UTC

acangiano wrote: post #2

> I work in C# (worst language EVER!) You lose all credibility right there. C# is far from the worst language ever, and a pretty decent one among mainstream object oriented languages.

Familiarity breeds contempt. Often it's the language that coders are currently using that seems like the worst, because they're dealing with that language's problems on a daily basis.

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Post by robinduckett » Sun, Feb 20, 2011, 1:02 AM UTC

Asked me to sign in to Google Groups. Closed tab.

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Post by mkramlich » Sun, Feb 20, 2011, 1:02 AM UTC

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Feb 20, 2011, 1:04 AM UTC

mkramlich wrote: post #7

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Post by mquander » Sun, Feb 20, 2011, 1:06 AM UTC

acangiano wrote: post #2

> I work in C# (worst language EVER!) You lose all credibility right there. C# is far from the worst language ever, and a pretty decent one among mainstream object oriented languages.

Yeah, I initially wrote a comment insulting him for not being able to figure out how to fold a list in C#, but the fact is, that wasn't in the standard library until late 2007, so I can sympathize.