4 Feb
2022
4 Feb
'22
10:16 a.m.
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, markus schnalke wrote:
You have to consider that each language is a child of
its time;
the culture of each programming language is shaped by the people
who use it, write libraries and books and teach others.
If you would introduce the C language today for the first
time, it wouldn't become the same language that we like. Its
libraries and culture would be very different because today's
programmers are different. Likewise, would Go have been
introduced in older times, it probably would have evolved
differently.
Probably true.
Thus, with liking the minimalist/powerful balance of C
and the
style of how programs in C are written (because that C culture
has grown decades ago and is now also a part of the language)
you actually say that you like the old times better than the new
times. (I don't blame you for that.)
Could be that I cut my teeth on an 8-bit computer and did a lot of work on
16-bit systems, so I'm used to working with limited RAM and CPU.
This all is much more about culture and what types of
people
program and the reasons why they program and the kinds of
projects they do and the kinds of companies and their motivation
in programming and how all this shapes the culture of any
language ... than it is about specific languages itself, IMO.
There is certainly truth to that. And even human languages tend to adapt
in culture-specific ways ("two countries divided by a common language"
being a common joke about the US versus the UK, for example).
-uso.