>>I think all of the scripting languages have design problems that were solved before the languages were ever written.
I don't disagree. But many/most of those design decisions were made to ease learning path, etc.
I should know by now that it is hard to argue "worse is better" to a CL guy. :-)
(C++ is quite a bit more flexible than Java; what feature took so much more characters? afaik -- with modern libraries, you can be very productive in C++. It isn't used so much because of the pain, I guess...)
I don't disagree. But many/most of those design decisions were made to ease learning path, etc.
I should know by now that it is hard to argue "worse is better" to a CL guy. :-)
(C++ is quite a bit more flexible than Java; what feature took so much more characters? afaik -- with modern libraries, you can be very productive in C++. It isn't used so much because of the pain, I guess...)