It's nice that he decided to try a couple of new languages that he'd never written any code in before, but what significance does his experience of writing a trivial tool in each really have for other people? The blog post strikes me as a bit like a youtube video of somebody trying out a couple of musical instruments they haven't played before... irrelevant to people who don't know the submitter.
Yes, it is a worthless comparison. This specific application would look almost exactly the same in assembly language, so there is really not much to learn here.
It is interesting to see that "I am switching from Perl to Ruby or Python" was something people blogged about in 2002, however.
It's nice that he decided to try a couple of new languages that he'd never written any code in before, but what significance does his experience of writing a trivial tool in each really have for other people? The blog post strikes me as a bit like a youtube video of somebody trying out a couple of musical instruments they haven't played before... irrelevant to people who don't know the submitter.
flagged