bob742

joined 1 year ago
 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/1379446

Why I think Typescript is A Good Thing, But mainly a complaint about the number of programming languages. Other than objects (which were not invented), I don't think any of them are a marked improvement on PL/1.

 

Why I think Typescript is A Good Thing, But mainly a complaint about the number of programming languages. Other than objects (which were not invented), I don't think any of them are a marked improvement on PL/1.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

We don't/ None of them are a significant improvement on PL/1 other that having objects (which hadn't been invented.) I blogged on this recently. https://bobbrowning.wordpress.com/2023/07/02/typescript-i-quite-like-it-plus-bonus-rant-about-languages/