Semicolon Wars

The “semicolon wars” is an article written by Brian Hayes, One quote that became one of my favorites is the one that he starts the article, and goes like this, ‘If you want to be a thoroughgoing world traveler, you need to learn 6,912 ways to say “Where is the toilet, please?”’, and what he meant by that, is that if you want to be a polyglot programmer, you need to learn more tan 8,500 different programming languages. Which is a really good challenge that I don’t think anyone has the time for that.

Also he states that we are far from founding a “perfect” language, with the best notation for expressing an algorithm or defining a data structure. But people like to disagree sayingould say that he is not right, that we already have a fine language, but everyone will say a different one like C#, Java, Python, etc. And here is where you start seeing the problema with this, that everyone has its own “perfect” language and I think that that is saying something, and that something is that any language is far for being “perfect”. Like if we try to implement all the features in one single language I think that would be a really big mess, and there is always someone saying that it misses something that another language has.

To give a conclusion, I really enjoyed this article, the way he wrote it was so good and funny for my kind of humor. Also I learned some other new things like the insane quantity of programming languages and how to read a date in Java. And that we as programmers ours likes in programming languages also break in genres, that if you like a specific language you don’t need to brush it off in another face to show how good it is. Just talk it without the need to start a “war”.