Re: OT: UK okays warrantless remote hacking of PCs

On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:03:19 -0800, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

A good computer language should discourage tricky constructs,
cleverness, coding speed, and coding efficiency. It should be
plodding, tedious, constrained, and wordy. It should positively chase
away people who want to play programming games but don't care about
applications.

Cobol comes to mind.

Cobol was, of course, invented by Grace Hopper. Someone here recently
observed that English majors may make better programmers than CS
majors. There may be something going on here; the classic male geek
empathy-free visual-spatial game playing mentality may not be best way
to get good code.

John


My oldest son is multi-lingual... and writes good code. I've always
associated good language skills with good software.

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