Re: PROGRAMMING: Free Tools Finally Available

Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
24 Sep 1999 16:43:03 +0200

"Bryan Moss" <bryan.moss@dial.pipex.com> writes:

> Emlyn O'Regan wrote:
>
> > If C++ is enough to frustrate you then use Delphi - it'll do the job
> > nicely (unlike VB), and you wont need quality life extension to find all
> > the bugs causing gpfs (unlike C++).
>
> Pascal is an evil language built on fascist values and is therefore not
> extropic.

So you don't like bondage and discipline languages? :-) Actually, it is interesting to see the values inherent in different languages. Lisp/scheme has a strong bottom-up tendency, with a Hofstadterian aesthetic. C is a quick and dirty "let's do it" language. And just like architecture might form the kind of organisations that work in it (can you see the boss or vice versa? who do you meet? how accessible are people?) the languages might influence what we write and how we think (a kind of software Sapir-Worf hypothesis).

So, what is the hidden values of object oriented programming? Reification? Monads?

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