What Went Wrong?

On 2008-04-21, graham.kerr.stark@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Hmm, I've seen some complaints about people that try to really base
>> themselves on scripting languages. Nearly all relating to large scale,
and
>> long term use though. It would be logical that that is not the real use
case
>> for scripting languages, but those usercommunities seem to suggest it
is.
>
> My own view is that the success of a programming language nowadays is
> as much a social issue as technical one.  Ruby, Perl and PHP have
> wonderfully sup****tive communities surrounding them.  I've sometimes
> felt that there was an atmosphere of intolerance round the Pascal
> family.

I recognize that, and it is similar with e.g. C (where you constantly got
flamed over standards details, C and POSIX).

But I think that is pretty explainable that the scripting languages groups
are more homogenous than e.g. C of Pascal in the days of yore.  Most of
them
are not really programmers, but people customizing some framework for own
use, rather than fulltime programmers creating software.

See also the remark in prev post about problems for larger apps before.
They
don't fit in -> friction.

> BTW,  can someone change the thread title back to "What Went Wrong?"
> please, or something similar? I'm posting from Google and don't see
> how to do that.

Done.