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Language Design Philosophies

Mark Mzyk | June 21, 2009

In a conversation with a coworker, we distilled several programming languages’ design philosophies down to a single sentence.

Here’s what we came up with:

Java: Protect the Developer From Themselves

Ruby: Be the Developer’s Language

Python: There is One True Way

PHP: eh

Do you agree? Disagree? What are the one sentence philosophies behind other languages that we didn’t touch on?

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  1. Comment by Tom:

    Reminds me of:

    http://www.aegisub.net/2008/12/if-programming-languages-were-religions.html

    June 23, 2009 @ 7:05 am
  2. Comment by Mark Mzyk:

    It is very similar Tom. I know there are lots of if programming languages were … lists out there. I just hadn’t ever seen one exactly like the one my coworker and I developed, so I thought I’d post it. It’s obviously far from complete, so suggestions are welcome.

    June 23, 2009 @ 8:34 pm
  3. Comment by Raving Genius:

    C#: You may use this hammer, but not that one.

    August 17, 2009 @ 7:22 pm
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