bkil vs. programming

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We had a discussion on programming language preferences last week with a friendly undergraduate guy. He strongly prefers C++ and Qt, also showing enthusiastic interest in studying Concurrent Clean, while showing great dislike of Java, C# and Ada. I won't go through the whole argument here, but the most interesting aspect of his mentality is disliking the last one. He went on to demonstrate the inferiority of Ada with examples that prove true even in the case of Clean or Haskell! In favor of C++, he mentioned the forgiving nature of the type system. As an issue against Java, he named garbage collection, and against Ada, he listed many issues like instance derivation of type classes and the obscure syntax (I think he used a word like incongruent). He was desperate even after I told him that he will face with very similar issues under Clean. Well, in my opinion, he will have a great time after getting hang of all that! ;-)