Reginald Braithwaite says that a programming language cannot be better without being unintuitive. I agree more with his follow up, that Unfamiliarity is the driving force behind being better in the sense of a programming language. And “intuitive” isn’t a real property of programming languages, it’s the result of good design. [Continue]

Someone has gone through a huge effort to chart out the popular languages. The popularity is measured using various aspects, looking at job postings, number of programming books, most discussed. For the search results the top 3 ranks are: C Java PHP The top 3 ranks from the discussion sites are: C Java Python Some observations from this. [Continue]

In spite of many paradigms using which programming languages are classified, there is one that stands out, painfully! In my various dealings with students, freshers and even developers, there seems to be a bias towards a particular set of languages. The other set of languages are ignored, howmuchever they deserve merit and attention, they are largely unnoticed. [Continue]