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Monday, August 16, 2004
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Reviewing Joel on Software -- Comment()
Today Apress promised to send a review copy of Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky. I look forward to getting my hands on the book.
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What is the best programming language? -- Comment()
How To Pick A Programming Language: 'This was written in response to one of the inevitable "Why programming language is better, x or y?" questions that pops up with great regularity [...] I thought I'd take a stab at answering it for all time...' There must be dozens of languages which I have tried at one point. Here is my list of favorite languages, and applications with a build-in language (in no particular order): Pascal, Fortran 90/95, Python, ANSI C, Mathematica, Maple, Matlab, Prolog, Smalltalk, ...
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Why programmers don't like to use programs? -- Comment()
CT commented my entry on hiring a hacker vs. a professional: "[...] you have to take the IDE into account. The tool that you use to program, which is, of course, a computer program itself, is important. A program language can have multiple IDEs. This makes the problem more complicated than we give it credit. [...] Why do programmers not like to use programs?" I agree that the development environment matters in programming. The first program I ever bought was Turbo Pascal for Mac Plus. It was a fine compiler but not very advanced in terms of the IDE. Later I swithed to Lightspeed Pascal which was much nicer. The IDE helped me to solve a difficult programming project, which I don't think I would have solved otherwise. Yet later I became familiar with Smalltalk, where you really can't separate the IDE from the language.
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