Thread: Second year paper.

O_o

Well, I'd have to disagree with pretty much everything Mario says for the same logic he presents as his base.

*shrug*

Seriously though, discounting the same groups he has, I'd say the decision comes more from the facilities the language and standard library provides than from the syntax.

I can easily see the unaffiliated programmer going for C# over C++ when the need is largely GUI related or Haskel over C when the need is for crazy list processing.

And I'm using those examples because I think the syntax for all of them suck.

Soma

Originally Posted by DavidP

Does Java allow the "$" character to be included in variable names? I've only seen that in PHP and BASIC...

Yes it does - or at least I use them because it to me tells me that variable is a $tring :-) my naming conventions are based on my experience of high-level BASIC and the way I program is usually influenced from my assembly language/machine code days (actually doing some good old 6502 at the moment).

As for the suggestion of not writing this paper - please don't worry, I'll keep everyone anonymous (which is kind of the point of forums anyway isn't it? That you don't have to use your real names). From a human psychology point-of-view, my professional background is in social science and not computer science; I'm retraining. So, the answers and opinions many of you have given have been both interesting and exactly what I'd expect to hear really.

Oh, and Mike Dailly's post here is an interesting read.

Cheers chaps!

Regards,

Shaun.

Originally Posted by ಠ_ಠ

*vomits*

Can I quote you on that...? Stupid question as I just have :-)

Regards,

Shaun.