John Gossman has an article on programming languages. Some neat insights into why people perceive a difference in professionalism of languages.
John reduces the cause of these perceptions to two factors:
- Quickness of development versus Scale
- Interactivity of development experience versus Performance of deployed code
I totally agree that it's just a matter of perception, and that these perceptions can change over time. My hobby language this month is Smalltalk-80, which is a 'serious' old language; it's wonderful that elementary school kids who play in the Squeak environment perceive smalltalk as a toy. On the other hand, software engineers might perceive Flash and actionscript as a toy, but it's been used to build some serious web applications. It depends on your perspective.
Anyways, great article.
Posted by samuel at June 27, 2005 05:25 PMThis is a cool site.richa
Posted by: richa at July 13, 2005 03:58 AMInteresting
Posted by: John at August 5, 2005 06:18 AM