{"id":316,"date":"2007-07-21T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxalien.com\/purplemass\/?p=316"},"modified":"2007-07-21T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T17:18:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"Programming Language Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human beings love to argue. Whether the argument is about boxers vs. briefs, ketchup vs. mustard, or Ginger vs. Mary Ann, people will take a position and argue.<\/p>\n<p>This trait is particularly common among programmers. Classic arguments include big endian versus little endian, indexing arrays beginning with 1 or 0, and which language is best. While the other debates have subsided a bit, the argument over which language is best seems to have heated up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.slickedit.com\/?p=95\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a good article about &#8216;Code reuse&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoq.com\/news\/2007\/07\/worthless-code\" target=\"_blank\">Code reuse highly overrate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human beings love to argue. Whether the argument is about boxers vs. briefs, ketchup vs. mustard, or Ginger vs. Mary Ann, people will take a position and argue. This trait is particularly common among programmers. Classic arguments include big endian versus little endian, indexing arrays beginning with 1 or 0, and which language is best. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}