ark@research.att.com (Andrew Koenig) writes:
> So it is also with programming languages. If C++ had not built on C, it
> would never have gotten out of the starting gate. So it had no choice
> but to inherit its computational model from C. Many people consider other
> computational models better, but there is far from a consensus as to
> which one to use. So the C model, which C++ uses, remains the common tongue.
>
> This is a behaviorial observation, not a value judgement.
It is a correct observation, but by the same token I think it is a
big-time myth that computer programmers are too slow to learn new
languages, or that it is uneconomic to teach a new language rather
than plough ahead with what you already know.
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