[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Python?

[Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Brandon J. Van Every (vanevery@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Not to dissuade you... but are you being honest when you say you like C,
> as opposed to modern languages?  I always have a hard time wrapping my
> brain around the idea that in 2003, there are application developers who
> really feel this way.  Kernel gurus, device driver jocks, ok.  But app
> developers??

How about going all the way to a really modern language (with a good
generational GC, type inférences, objects, first class functions, and
pattern matching). There are several of them, my favorite is Ocaml.

(It's really interesting to see language wars from a programming
language researcher point of view: most of the points debated a long
time ago. The reassuring bit is that old stuff, like polymorphism, is
finally getting into mainstream languages (generics in Java and C#)).

Alan Schmitt

PS: and my second favorite language after Ocaml is C: it's clean,
precise, and let you do almost exactly what you want (including writing
into unallocated memory).

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