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The Best Programming Language (fourthbit.com)
2 points by neverminder on April 27, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



I can't honestly see the point of this post. What is the purpose of just listing a huge amount of languages with code example into a "Reasonable languages" label? Why even classify all of these languages if all you're showing is a bunch of short and not-very-explicative code snippets?

Aside for taste and opinions, putting Go in the reasonable languages and Rust in the unreasonable ones because Rust is not "backed by a huge company" (which is arguably incorrect), and then putting F# in the unreasonable ones because "many of us have learned to keep away from Microsoft" is a bit silly. These statements are flat out contradictory.

It would have been much more useful to just list a bunch of languages with their pros and cons and code snippets, that would have definitely been interesting (not that it hasn't been done before).

Any mature-enough programmer would be proficient enough to realize that claiming "best" or even trying to rank programming languages is just tilting at windmills. Title is arguably click-baiting.




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