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Every language war ever

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By Adam Gaffin
Network World Fusion 03/01/04

Bill Stilwell deftly summarizes every debate you've ever had about computer languages. Sample:

Idiot 1: Your Favorite Language is bad at doing arbitrarily chosen task X, which it was never designed to do. This just happens to be a field in which My Favorite Language excels.

Idiot 2: Ah yes, but YFL is bad at doing Y, which MFL is great at.

I1: Plus YFL is slow. MFL is fast. ...


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