I couldn't agree more. This is exactly the problem with science today: instead of evaluating theories by their real merit, predictive ability, "does this idea idea work or not?", and instead concentrating on a reputation system based on who is working on the theory, is he or she playing along the groupthink?, science will go down and down in real quality, until smart people like creationists et al find possible to not only challenge it, but ultimately prevail. And while that happens, theorethical physicists will still be arguing for and against strings...
To the anonymous moderator: troll? Maybe. Flamebait? No. Ironic? Yes.
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I congratulate you for taking the time to learn other languages before making a deliberate choice. I have no problem with Pascal, Delphi, or any other programming language by itself, if the tool solves the problem at hand that's great. The problem is the people who learn just one language, and that language becomes the very best thing in the world - just like the proverbial guy who has only a hammer, and all his problems just start to look like nails;)
Ok, the experiment will be performed and properly validated, in a North-American (Usian) university, by super-intelligent and hard-working Indian and Chinese graduate students.
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I don't intend to sound rude, but Delphi allows the very same people (non-programmers) who code messy VB to create even messier, more powerful and consequently more dangerous applications, with its "Object Pascal". I have met (and unfortunately had to work with) some reasonably competent but otherwise very arrogant "programmers" which insisted Delphi was as powerful as C++ (maybe), but unable to debug their own sad little application (hint: it was a buggy dragged-and-dropped component, provided by Borland/Inprise no less.)
Mod me flamebait if you will, but real programmers must learn at least some C++ (imperative) *and* some LISP (functional) before even attempting to advocate for or against any other programming language.
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I couldn't agree more. This is exactly the problem with science today: instead of evaluating theories by their real merit, predictive ability, "does this idea idea work or not?", and instead concentrating on a reputation system based on who is working on the theory, is he or she playing along the groupthink?, science will go down and down in real quality, until smart people like creationists et al find possible to not only challenge it, but ultimately prevail. And while that happens, theorethical physicists will still be arguing for and against strings...
To the anonymous moderator: troll? Maybe. Flamebait? No. Ironic? Yes.
I congratulate you for taking the time to learn other languages before making a deliberate choice. I have no problem with Pascal, Delphi, or any other programming language by itself, if the tool solves the problem at hand that's great. The problem is the people who learn just one language, and that language becomes the very best thing in the world - just like the proverbial guy who has only a hammer, and all his problems just start to look like nails ;)
Ok, the experiment will be performed and properly validated, in a North-American (Usian) university, by super-intelligent and hard-working Indian and Chinese graduate students.
I don't intend to sound rude, but Delphi allows the very same people (non-programmers) who code messy VB to create even messier, more powerful and consequently more dangerous applications, with its "Object Pascal". I have met (and unfortunately had to work with) some reasonably competent but otherwise very arrogant "programmers" which insisted Delphi was as powerful as C++ (maybe), but unable to debug their own sad little application (hint: it was a buggy dragged-and-dropped component, provided by Borland/Inprise no less.)
Mod me flamebait if you will, but real programmers must learn at least some C++ (imperative) *and* some LISP (functional) before even attempting to advocate for or against any other programming language.
Hey, this is not +5 Funny, it's +5 Insightful.
you may defeat the beast by wearing a tinfoil hat (or glove)?