Re: Best Language for .Net?

If that were really true, then everyone would still be using COBOL. Or
Lisp. Or Prolog. (Or, frankly, Pascal. Pascal probably only commands a
fraction of a percent of the global programming market; if "wordiness"
were such a good thing, more people would be using it IMO.)


Logic is *never* the reason why one particular product dominates a market or
not. Coke by all taste tests is worse than Pepsi, yet it owns some 60+%
share of the cola market? In fact, according to taste tests, the best
tasting cola is RC Cola, which owns a palsy 10%- of marketshare. The reason
COBAL, Lisp, Prolog, Pascal, etc, are fading/faded is because of marketing,
not because of language features...

Let's face it -- "wordiness" in a programming language is really not a
good thing. Clarity is often served by terseness (not always, but often).


I would say that a balance between "wordiness" and "terseness" is what makes
a language readable. For me, the more explicit a language is, the better
since it's a lot easier to maintain in the long run. I've found Delphi to be
that right balance between explicity and getting-the-job-done, where-as I
find too many "short-cuts" in C-based languages that tend to make
maintenance a lot more difficult.

-BKN


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