In the blog posting titled Judging Programming Languages by the Results, Alexander Rødseth comes to the conclusion that he should use Pascal for Linux desktop application development. My favourite part is in the comments, where a reader sums up the flaw in Rødseth ’s thesis with a single hypothetical quote: “This book is great! I know — if I want to replicate its success, I’ll just use the same font!”
Judging Programming Languages by the Results
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Hi,
Thanks for commenting my blog!
However, that was not my conclusion, only that I’ll take a second look at the free pascal compiler.
And, as I replied to the guy comparing the programming languages to the font in a book - programming languages influence the thinking of the programmer a whole lot more than the font influences the contents of a book…