They seem to have put 20 points on "compilation and execution in one command" - which is meaningless. They only languages that misses out aren't scripting languages.
Then they put 15 points on being "shebang aware (#!)", which penalises VBScript quite heavily when you consider that in its natural environment, file name extensions are used for that purpose.
Indeed. Many people will agree that learning assembler is beneficial, but the reasoning given is spurious.
The guy who drives the mechanical excavator keeps a spade in the cab. Why? Not because it will make him more efficient at driving the machine, but because just occasionally he might have to "debug" a buried pipe or cable, or get into the corners.
In addition, rolling his sleeves up and shovelling some mud will give him a better intuitive relationship with the stuff he works with.
You have to know how to do any job by hand before you are truly proficient at the mechanised version.
I'm glad I learned some assembler, but I'm also glad that most of the time there are tools which will do it better than I could.
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They seem to have put 20 points on
"compilation and execution in one command"
- which is meaningless. They only languages that misses out aren't scripting languages.
Then they put 15 points on being "shebang aware (#!)", which penalises VBScript quite heavily when you consider that in its natural environment, file name extensions are used for that purpose.
Somebody had a (not very well) hidden agenda.
Indeed. Many people will agree that learning assembler is beneficial, but the reasoning given is spurious.
The guy who drives the mechanical excavator keeps a spade in the cab. Why? Not because it will make him more efficient at driving the machine, but because just occasionally he might have to "debug" a buried pipe or cable, or get into the corners.
In addition, rolling his sleeves up and shovelling some mud will give him a better intuitive relationship with the stuff he works with.
You have to know how to do any job by hand before you are truly proficient at the mechanised version.
I'm glad I learned some assembler, but I'm also glad that most of the time there are tools which will do it better than I could.