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Wow, so many things wrong with this essay.
>Java will turn out to be an evolutionary dead-end, like Cobol.
Someone should tell this dude about C#
>Any programming language can be divided into two parts: some set of fundamental operators that play the role of axioms, and the rest of the language, which could in principle be written in terms of these fundamental operators.
what the fuck? The only so called axioms of a language are the fucking instructions that a cpu can run. according to this philosophy, the best "programming language" is an bunch of fucking NAND gates.
>The more of a language you can write in itself, the better.
Uh, you've heard of a phrase called Turing Complete yes?
>just as, for me at least, eating a steak requires a conscious effort not to think where it came from.
Your a huge fucking faggot.
>McCarthy's 1960 paper was not, at the time, intended to be implemented at all.
Smart guy that McCarthy was.
>Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code.
WHAT THE FUCK. WHAT THE FUCK. WHAT THE FUCK.
Objects: discreet units with minimal interaction with each other.
Spaghetti: A hopelessly tangled mess
>Little attention is paid to profiling now.
Sentences like these are why little attention is paid to you now
>true macros-- without which, in my opinion, no language is worth using.
Well i guess that leaves lisp and .... lisp. Have fun reading and debugging those macros!
>look at a program and ask, is there any way to write this that's shorter
This is a leading cause of programmer on programmer homicides.