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Eric Lippert on why Programming Languages Turn Out The Way They Do

 If you don't know Eric Lippert, he was a member of the C# team for
many years (And JScript- Remember JScript?) and Adam Rackis posed the
following question on twitter:

    Say what you will about Microsoft, they're a LOT better at
    language design than whoever the hell owns the Java spec.

    It's like night at day.

    C# 2007 was more feature rich, and cohesive than Java today.

    -- Adam Rackis (@AdamRackis) September 22, 2021


Here's Eric's answer (it's a tweet thread - so click the link to read
the entire thread). 

    Yes, but it is important to realize that it has nothing to do
    with the talent of the language designers; both C# and Java have
    benefitted from talented designers with excellent taste.

    -- Eric Lippert (@ericlippert) September 22, 2021

It's a wonderful answer that dives into those small little decisions
we make that have outsized impacts.  As an example, he cites
consultants changing course curriculum(s) yearly as a reason why some
teams may get pressure not to add new features to their programming
language!

To bring it back to what we talk about here:  Those little decisions
combined with your company's contexts -- the business, technical,
social, cultural, and financial states of mind your company is in -
will have more of an impact on the ability for your systems to scale
than any other factors. That's why it's crucial to fully understand
these contexts before trying to make change in your system and
company.

[9ed34][9ed34]Author geostockPosted on September 23, 2021September
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