By CodeJustin
via reinout.vanrees.org
Published: Jul 05 2009 / 05:54
Bruce Eckel has always tried to figure out programming languages: why they do things, why they don’t do other things. He’s best known for thinking in c++ and thinking in java. At the time those languages helped productivity, but now they’re holding programmers back. So he’s frustrated with those books now. A GUI he advises after looking at a large number of them: Adobe’s Flex. He’s also written a book on it.
Bruce created the PyCon conference’s tshirt: “elegance begets simplicity”. A previous shirt “life is better without braces” was based on a comment by him to Guido.
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yakkoh replied ago:
It is more complicated than that.
It says: "Common error reporting: exceptions. C++ introduced it ...": I am not sure.
It is described in the Common Lisp manual in 1984, and I have seen it in the Lisp machine manual in 1981.
90 % of all modern features and constructs (okay , except regex) are in Smalltalk and Common Lisp.
Matsumoto must have read Common Lisp, the language, 10 times.
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