>>21
Python can interoperate with Java code using Jython, and it has a free implementation that can run everywhere. C# only runs on the Microsoft .Net Common Language Runtime. (Mononucleosis does not count)
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Anonymous2009-03-23 9:20
>>9
Yes I would. Are you going to the Campus Preview Weekend?
>>21
It's not about features. It's about clarity. These classes teach people how to program. How much of C# do they have to know for the program logic to be obvious to them?
Also, Haskell
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Anonymous2009-03-23 14:51
>>22 C# can interoperate with Java code and Python code, and it has a free implementation that can run everywhere. Python only runs on the Microsoft .Net Common Language Runtime. (CPythongs does not count.
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Anonymous2009-03-23 14:54
>>26
if you're concerned with clarity, how would a language with VB-like syntax be better than one with C-like syntax? most people already know at least one language with C-like syntax.
the only people who already know VB are the idiots still using VB6.
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Anonymous2009-03-23 17:47
>>28 most programmers who already know how to program already know at least one language with C-like syntax
Fixed that for you. Did you miss the part where they're teaching people how to program? Or maybe just the part where IHBT
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Anonymous2009-03-23 23:50
>>29
how to program is not something that can be taught.
>>36 here
I didn't see >>9-san at the meetup unfortunantly. Though I did see a rather grotesque neckbeard who claimed he was from slash-progge-slash, which might have been you actually.
Lovely
>>43
Stallman voice of the people: "Don't let them slowly chip away at your freedom, yesterday they take away your right to modify your software, today they challenge your right to read; keep at it and they will soon take away our right to program. Notable not by virtue of the loss of rights in themselves, but by the loss of ability of a people, a community- programmers to read SICP and if they so wish, complete the excercises therein."
>>46
You mean to say you're all alone there? You sat there in some dark computer lab or desolate hallway, surfing the internet, when suddenly you exclaimed "Do you see that, Wilson? Other people are going to MIT, too! Maybe I'll get to meet a real human being again!"