Darren New wrote:
> One of the better ones I've seen.
> 
> http://web.mit.edu/~axch/www/writing_rant.html

The one for C++ seems about right. All the others don't match my 
experience at all. (E.g., since when does Java "always get the job done 
eventually"? I've lost count of the number of programs I was unable to 
finish because Java just makes it too difficult, lacks the necessary 
feature, or the spec sheet says the feature exists but it's not actually 
implemented!)

I'd say that Perl is like a tool that somebody wrote to solve the one 
particular problem they were trying to solve that day, and then tried to 
claim it was a general-purpose tool. It makes a small class of problems 
really easy to solve, and everything else almost impossible. The whole 
thing seems to be a steaming pile of ad hoc solutions with no unifying 
form or structure. Kind of like learning English, but harder.

I'm not familiar with Ruby, Scheme, or Mozart. Of course I've heard of 
all these things, but I don't know anything about them. (I started 
reading a Ruby tutorial, but the random inconsistant syntax put me off. 
And the ham.)

So anyway, since I'm sure you're all expecting it anyway... I'd say that 
coding in Haskell is like doing highschool algebra. (In more ways than 
one.) At first it seems weird and complicated. And then, assuming you 
"get it", it suddenly seems really simple and easy and "obvious". And 
then as you try to tackle harder problems, it starts seeming difficult 
again...

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