CompuServe Messages

>There are no bad languages, only bad programmers(Of course, you'd have to >shoot me before I wrote one *word* of COBOL code). Jokes aside, I might agree that there are no "bad" languages: Afterall each was created for in intended purpose and probably met it in part. OTOH, that doesn't mean they meet the "test of time" and such so from that perspective they might be "not good" (BTW, by test of time I do not mean popularity, that's no doubt a bad and bogusy gauge). There's also the case of using the wrong language for a given job (though that's another issue). Anyway, my points are simple: all languages (computer or otherwise, spoken or written, etc) are not created equal. Certainly some issue are debatable forever as eye of the beholder issues, others as contextual, etc, but certainly some are not (and I speak not of just syntactic issues).