Thread: Second year paper.

Greetings,

I'm currently studying a computer science degree here in the UK and for one of my assignments I'm to write a paper about something that interests me with regard to computing. I'm looking at the importance of language - not that I'm wanting to get into language wars or anything - but particularly the psychology of language: why do people think that the syntax is more important than the underlying programming principles and logic?

If anyone has any opinions about this then please feel free to contact me, you may do so anonymously if you like.

Also, here's a simple 'Hello World' program in Java:

Code:

public class Hello
{
	public static void main (String [] args)
	{
	char [] letters={ 'H','e','l','l','o',32,'W','o','r','l','d','!','0' };
                // Zero used as terminator
	String s$="";
	int eye=0;
	while (letters[eye]!='0')
		{
		s$=s$+letters[eye];
		eye=eye+1;
		}
		System.out.println(s$);
	}
}

Surely this would be easy to convert to C/C++? Apparently, some people don't think so.

Regards,

Shaun.