12-02-2022, 12:48 PM
I don't get your analogy.
I resent Lua's place, but it must be the bunch of "extensions" force-feeding the OOP bit. If they had settled strictly with what was offered on "lua-dot-org" it would have been greener for sure. I think it was poisoned also by Terra, by certain "code generators" able to produce code that it could run, and its close relation to C and the consequences of it.
I also think Pascal is actually less green considering the great mess I found 64-bit Free Pascal to be, if I were more interested in porting old Turbo Pascal code than in programming an app with Qt for GNOME which also had to work best on Windows11 and MacOS v12 or some evil scheme.
LISP is doing very well for a 60-year-old language LOL. I want to learn Racket so bad. (put "crying" emotion with green face here)
LOL C++ being green, those people voted on it haven't tried to download any portion of Visual Studio 2022. For me it was at least 13GB with a few modules installed, much of it having to do with that next-to-least-green thing on "energy" and "time" lists, and making sure I could compose in Visual Basic.
Somebody who doesn't know BASIC since the QuickBASIC/QBasic days has to spend a lot of energy learning concepts and especially having to get around the keywords and the quirks about syntax (such as being able to use "ASC()" on left-hand-side while QB didn't support it). But try to learn Dark Basic, Purebasic, True Basic or something like that instead...
I resent Lua's place, but it must be the bunch of "extensions" force-feeding the OOP bit. If they had settled strictly with what was offered on "lua-dot-org" it would have been greener for sure. I think it was poisoned also by Terra, by certain "code generators" able to produce code that it could run, and its close relation to C and the consequences of it.
I also think Pascal is actually less green considering the great mess I found 64-bit Free Pascal to be, if I were more interested in porting old Turbo Pascal code than in programming an app with Qt for GNOME which also had to work best on Windows11 and MacOS v12 or some evil scheme.
LISP is doing very well for a 60-year-old language LOL. I want to learn Racket so bad. (put "crying" emotion with green face here)
LOL C++ being green, those people voted on it haven't tried to download any portion of Visual Studio 2022. For me it was at least 13GB with a few modules installed, much of it having to do with that next-to-least-green thing on "energy" and "time" lists, and making sure I could compose in Visual Basic.
Somebody who doesn't know BASIC since the QuickBASIC/QBasic days has to spend a lot of energy learning concepts and especially having to get around the keywords and the quirks about syntax (such as being able to use "ASC()" on left-hand-side while QB didn't support it). But try to learn Dark Basic, Purebasic, True Basic or something like that instead...