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Originally Posted by devilsadvocate
That is the great compromise for programming and will be for the foreseeable future: Make it easier on humans, or make it easier on the machine. 3 guesses as to who's going to win in the market (both for software and the programming job-market).
My last experience with anything procedural was with PL-SQL, and that's only 2/3 of a language anyway. Before that...well, remember the Apple IIe?
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I see your Apple IIe and raise you a Commodore PET...(I still run an Atari 800 emulator on my PC. And I have the original 800, so there, copyright police.)
As to who wins....hmmm....We'll see if the Cloud Computing paradigm takes off. If it does, you'll see a whole new world of efficient coding come about. Today, you write as quick and dirty as you can get away with, because the extra computing costs are borne by the end user. When the costs of computing are borne by the company writing the code, efficiency will come roaring back, because they will then paying for
all the computer costs of every user, and rewriting for efficiency will start to pay off on the
companies' bottom line.
Then again, I'm just a cranky old dinosaur.