It was better because it had no silent errors, like 1+”1”. Far from perfect, the fact it raised exceptions and enforced the philosophy of “don’t ask for permission but forgiveness” makes the difference.
IMHO It’s irrelevant it has a slightly better typesystem and runtime but that’s totally irrelevant nowadays.
With AI doing mostly everything we should forget these past riddles. Now we all should be looking towards fail-safe systems, formal verification and domain modeling.
IMHO It’s irrelevant it has a slightly better typesystem and runtime but that’s totally irrelevant nowadays.
With AI doing mostly everything we should forget these past riddles. Now we all should be looking towards fail-safe systems, formal verification and domain modeling.