[Info-vax] Programming languages, was: Re: DECUServe is a Hobbyist Chapter

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/6/2020 1:46 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2020-07-06, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Or you could stop using the Python crap (and the other ego language
>> du jour) and go back to using real languages to develop real programs.
> 
> Python's high level constructs make it really good for scripting
> type operations and is far superior to anything that DCL has to
> offer in terms of control structures and data types.
> 
> For traditional application programs, I prefer a more traditional
> programming language which has all the compiler-time checks and type
> checking built in.
> 
> You wouldn't use C++ or another similar language to write a shell
> script and you wouldn't use Python to write a full blown accounting
> package (for example).

There are accounting packages in Python.

:-)

And if I were to create an accounting package from scratch, then
I would seriously consider a model with some foundation in a
static typed compiled language, but all the code that may
require changes due to management decisions and changes in
regulations in a dynamic language (like Python).

Arne