Ryan Allen's Tumble Log

Double-incidentally, I’m sure some of you are thinking: “OK, ummm, ah, what should I use? You seem to hate everything.” Yep! Sunny G. put it best, actually. He said I reminded him of Dostoyevsky. He says I’m a “tortured soul”, which evidently makes me a good blogger, on account of my liver going to crap, or something along those lines. We were having beers at the time, so his exact wording is a bit fuzzy now. But he’s right. I do hate everything — at least all programming languages.

Or perhaps I should say “dislike?” No, I think “hate” will do nicely. All languages suck. At this junction in human history, the best thing you can do as a programmer (other than perhaps write your own language) is not to get too attached to any particular one, and choose them as appropriate for the task at hand, since each language has its niche.

Truth is, money is the easiest thing to get people to give up. Much easier than asking them to give up their time. Nobody wants to watch ads or futz around with some science project where you have to integrate a bunch of different things and it never works right.

No, what they want is something that’s that’s simple, that just works, and that doesn’t have ads. For this they are willing to spend money. Lots of it. All you do is say, Here you go, Mr. Frigtard, I saved you lots of time and hassle, now all you have to do is give me money. Easy-peezy.