The Semicolon Wars

There have always been discussions about which programming language is better than the others, in which of them you can solve more problems or is easier to use, but in my opinion, I think that, as the text says, the best language is the one that you know better, because there is a significant difference between express yourself with your "native language", than in a language you have just started to know.

To be able to say that certain kind of language is better than others, we should take in count the facility that the person have to understand certain characteristics of the language. There are some problems that are easier to resolve in some language than in others.

Knowing various kinds of programming languages allows you to have a wide knowledge regarding the syntax of each one. For example, the “,” at the end of each line is used in java, but not in python.

And other topic are the four basic types of programming languages.
  • Declarative: We detail the solution to the problem instead of describing how we arrived at that solution.
  • Functional: In this programming language, we rely on mathematical functions.
  • Object oriented: We organized the programs as cooperative collections of objects, each of which represents an instance of some kind. 
  • Imperative: We describe sentences that modify the state of a program, so we specify a sequence of actions.
In conclusion, learning different programming techniques, its syntax and types of each one will help you to solve more complex problems with more facility. On the other side, it will also help you to read any type of code, no matter the language, without making much effort and be able to decide which type of tool is de right one for every new challenge.



Comentarios

Publicar un comentario

Entradas populares de este blog

The Roots of Lisp

The Roots of Lisp In this blog I'll talk about the article called "The roots of Lisp" by Paul Graham, who is a british programmer who founded Viaweb and he is the co-founder of Combinator. The author describes the origins of LISP, where Jonh McCarthy participated in the creation. Paul made a review of what John MacCarthy found when he discovered this new notation to do the mathematical notation more easier to understand. This reading has been the most difficult to understand of the whole course, so I will try to make a brief summary of what I could understand and give my opinion. The articles begins with the differences between the structure of the programs in C and LISP, and he mention two basic types, that was the atoms and the lists. Lists refers to the concept that we have always understood in programming languages, but in the case of atom, it's a new concept for me, atoms in LISP is a word for all data types that are not cons cells (like numbe...
Leer más

Triumph of Nerds II

Triumph of Nerds II This documentary gives an important message about companies, companies need to have a holistic vision in order to take fundamental decisions in order to change the future and two of the biggest companies that are a big example of this is Microsoft and IBM so the documental tells interesting facts about this 2 big companies In the documentary, the key growth of any company is thinking of the future. Technology is advancing too fast so if you have a company dedicated to technology with a good idea, you should look for improve the idea and you need to be not stuck in that idea because  this is what happened to IBM, they got stuck in many things and the cost of that was expensive because now Microsoft has a better position and a lot of brilliant in the actual market, so Microsoft is a big example of having a holistic vision like "Windows in all computers and not only in IBM computers" gave to that company a big future and a great position...
Leer más

Language as the Ultimate Weapon

Why is the  Nineteen Eighty-Four  novel by George Orwell relevant to a student taking the Programming Language course? In this last entry of the coruse I will give my opinion about the Nineteen Eighty-four novel and the article titled “Language as the ‘Ultimate Weapon’ in Nineteen Eighty-Four".   “Different languages impose different conceptions of reality” I think that this phrase is very powerful and it is true, quotidian languages like English or Spanish or Japanese have their own culture behind them and when you understand them you start to have a different perception of life and thinking.  The same happens with the developers, we need to learn more and more programming languages and each programming language has their own rules and sometimes a very different syntaxis that give us different ways of thinking when we are solving problems, this is very important because we do not think the same when we develop in Python, C, C#, Clojure or Java. ...
Leer más