“The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language, which some real languages reflect more perfectly than others. Plato was brilliant for his time but reality is not expressable in terms of arbitrary visions of perfection, and furthermore, one programmer's ideal is often another's hell.” KindRealRealityFormLanguageTermPerfectExistenceVisionHellComputerIdealsPerfectionErrorsBrilliantDebatePlatoArbitraryProgrammersComputer LanguagePlatonic Author:Paul Vixie
