Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: A heretic question

G'day aoll. Quoting "Benjamin L.Russell" :

Interesting argument. At first I thought that the following uncensored interview with Bjarne Stroustrup was a joke, but your argument makes it seem all the more plausible:

That's not quite what I meant. What I meant is that Visual Basic script kiddie-ing may well be easy, real software development is hard. C++ is a hard tool to use well, but that's because it is doing a hard job.

Some say that C++ was intentionally designed to be extremely difficult to use specifically in order for C++ programmers to earn those "big bucks."

Maybe this is just me, but if I had to choose a tool, I'd choose one that would be easy to use well.

A paintbrush is easy to use, but hard to use well. Cheers, Andrew Bromage