[Techtalk] interpreted vs. compiled languages

[Carla Schroder]

On Tuesday June 9 2009 05:28:44 pm Daniel Pittman wrote:
> I guess a better thing to ask is: why do you ask?
>
> If you tell us what prompted the question it helps us understand why you
> are asking, and perhaps to give better (or more useful) answers. :)

Because Google gives too much conflicting information. Man, some folks sure get emotional over programming :).

And because the "why" must always come before the "how". I'm working up to some beginning howtos partly because I think it's needed, and partly to encourage more people to try a bit of coding. So I want a good grasp of general concepts from people (like Techtalkers!) who actually know what they're talking about, and good reasons for 'why do this instead of that', and why foo might be better for certain purposes than blah.

 I feel like a tidal wave of stupidity has swept the country (US) and I want to do my little bit to counter it however I can. So it's either "be polite, be helpful" or I start kicking the snot out of everyone who perpetrates whiny helplessness. Current fave peeve: people who spread fear and loathing about the CLI. I'm convinced it is an astroturf campaign; I'd rather believe that than believe there are so many shrieky twits who treat computers like they're demon-possessed.

BTW, for examples of awesomely excellent noob programming howtos, check out Akkana Peck's series on LinuxPlanet. I need to index them; meanwhile a quick 'akkana peck site:linuxplanet.com' on Google finds them.

Feel free to opinionate more, it's all good :)

Carla

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