[ale] Programming Languages and Personality?

[Jay Lozier]

FORTRAN induces thoughts of suicide.


On 06/30/2017 04:33 PM, Leam Hall wrote:
> Skipping over the long term coders who can do anything with assembler, 
> I'm trying to root out some personality thoughts on programming 
> languages. I'll have some alone time and would like to make some 
> coding progress; things have slowed while I learn Ansible.
>
> What has my interest is the mental perception I have of different 
> languages. Ruby, and to a slightly lesser extent PHP, are just fun. 
> Go, and C, are more academic and I find them powerful and dreary. 
> Python is somewhere in the middle and Perl, once my language of 
> choice, now makes me physically nauseous.
>
> Does anyone else have this perception, even if the reaction to the 
> same languages is different? More to the point, what can be done to 
> alter the personal reception of a language? Ruby makes me want to 
> code, C makes me want to sleep. Python makes me read e-mail to recover.
>
> Leam
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