{"id":1237,"date":"2013-11-14T20:57:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T04:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2013-11-14T20:57:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T04:57:30","slug":"the-paradox-of-programming-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"The Paradox of Programming Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I care so much about programming languages principally because I <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> care about computer geekery that much, at least not as much as most computer programmers do. I can&#8217;t really geek out on learning a programming language. Just give me something that&#8217;s simple and well-designed and therefore not much work to understand and use.<\/p>\n<p>That me averse to overly-complex languages like Ruby, Perl and particularly C++. Why would I want to piss away my valuable time becoming proficient in one of those when for less investment in time I can be proficient in something simpler and easier like Java, Python, or C#?<\/p>\n<p>It means I can spend less time worrying about computer programming and have more brain cells to devote to other things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I care so much about programming languages principally because I don&#8217;t care about computer geekery that much, at least not as much as most computer programmers do. I can&#8217;t really geek out on learning a programming language. Just give me something that&#8217;s simple and well-designed and therefore not much work to understand and use. That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}