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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 […]