Why Might the Whole Notion of a Programming Language Be Wrong?

I am not sure what you mean by the question, so I am going to answer it three ways.First, exactly as written. But as written the question does not make sense to me.

How can a language be wrong? A language is simply a vehicle for expressing oneself. In this case, expressing what you want a program to do.

Now, some other languages are more suited to writing certain kinds of programs than others. There is a reason why most u201cdevice driversu201d (a type of program) are written in C, while Java is used to build web server applications. But that doesn't make either language wrong.

At most it makes it wrong for a specific application, a poor choices if you will. But I would never say a whole programming language is wrong, excluding some very extreme examples like brainf**k designed to be u201cwrongu201d. Ok, so assuming that you meant something else.

Let's see what that could be.Next, you might mean, the case I mentioned above. You chose an unsuitable language for the task.

You could in some cases write a device driver in Java, but you are likely to find that certain features are missing. More importantly, the implementation of Java as an interpreter is wrong for a device driver. So, in that sense the language could wrong for this application.

In most cases, however, there are many reasonable choices and calling a language wrong is hyperbole for u201cI don't like your choice".Finally, you might mean not that the programming language is wrong, but the program is wrong. That is a common grammatical mistake.

Many people say you wrote a wrong u201cprogramming language" when they mean you wrote the wrong code, the wrong program. It's like saying that a letter someone wrote that wasn't expressed well, was u201cthe wrong Englishu201d. The person doesn't mean you should have written it in French.

They meant the words you chose don't express what they think you should have said. Why might the whole of a programming language be wrong?

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Which blood pressure is more dangerous: systolic or diastolic?

Clinicians know that hypertension is damaging. It shortens life and leads to problems which lessen ones quality of life. But what values of blood pressure represent hypertension?

Typically, high systolic and diastolic blood pressures are found together, though not always. Most clinicians believe that sustained diastolic (the low part) hypertension is more predictive of such complications. Still, there is some controversy about this.

There is currently a debate about what constitutes high blood pressure and how confident we can be that BPs taken in a physicians office reflect the truth of a patients situation. Fore example, my blood pressure is always significantly elevated (both diastolic and systolic) at my docs office, but is always cold normal at home, with values of less than 110/ 60 being typical. In other words, the stress imposed on me by the medical environment is enough in itself to induce hypertension, though only temporarily.

In an effort to correct for these anomalies, it is now being recommended by medical advisory panels that BPs be checked after about 15 minutes of (attempted!) relaxation in the office, and that at least 3 pressures be checked 5 minutes apart, that is, if an elevated value is found initially. Humm.

In real life, I think thats unlikely to happen. In such instances, I would take note of the elevated office pressure but recommend the patient closely follow his / her BP at home and report any tendency to sustained elevation. There are good reasons for doing this, so long as the patient can comply and knows how to take an accurate pressure.

One is that older people are more sensitive to antihypertensive drugs in general, and are more fall prone should their pressures drop too low, particularly when they first stand up from a lying position. It is also being currently recommended by at least one august medical body that BPs be pushed down to a new normal of 110/70. This advisory is controversial, especially among internal medicine docs who care for a lot of older patients.

Once again, what constitutes good treatment for one patient may be dangerous for another. I oppose any attempt to generalize arbitrary blood pressure targets on everyone, especially the elderly. There are just too many caveats

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Why do I never become angry?

A2A. Hahah!The reason behind my laugh is that I am an angry girl.

I gets angry very badly. I shout and cry loudly when I am angry.Only people like me can understand this.

If I say that Psychologists have discovered that there are three causes of anger:Our desires , goals and expectations are not met.Anger is a natural emotion that alerts us when something has violated thebnatural order of how we think things should go. Science has said that the bodily effects of anger are meant to motivate us to take charge and restore the balance of right and wrong.

But for this to occur, you have to get angry for the right reason and exlress your anger appropriately.It can be like why you feel like not getting angry,Your all desires came trueYour all goals are set,May be you don't get threaten by anybody,May be you don't find any point in fighting with others,May be you are getting all you want. May be you are going with the flow.

May be people can easily influence you to do the way they want.May be you don't have much energy to fight or discuss with others.Or may be you take things so easily.

May be you have good friends.And dude may be you are enjoying your life to the fullest. May be all the things in your life are going right.

But what I feel is that anger is like a vomit , as vomiting is helpful to reduce the poision from our body likewise anger is same. It's good if we take out some negativity from our brains but it should not hurt anyone. Researchers has given some point that anger is beneficial in some case:-IT MAKES US FOCUS MORE ON REWARDS.

When you are upset because nothing is going right and you feel like the world is against you, anger is fuel that drives you to prove everyone wrong. That is why people feel so motivated to prove their haters wrong. WHEN WE ARE ANGRY , WE ARE MORE OPTIMISTIC.

It sounds contradictory , but being angry makes us think more positively about the future. This is because when we are angry we feel like we are in control. IT BOOSTS CREATIVITY.

Studies show that when you are angry, you experience heightened energy levels and your thought process becomes more flexible, allowing you to come up with more and more original ideas than you can in your neutral state.Hope you get what you are seeking

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After leaving my narcissist, I receive silent late-night calls from a private number with no ID caller. Why is he doing that?

I never had calls like that before so I know it's him. Is this a good start for the future hoovering attempt?

I also donu2019t like the term u2018my narcissist.

u2019 You know what it conveys to me? A group of people hovering fondly over pens of fluffy narcissists, waiting for them to do something cute or bite, or to poke them.Or waiting for them to hoover.

In other words, all the attention is where it always was: on the narcissist. If, in fact, the person is good for the diagnostic signs of NPD, not just a jerk or an abusive jerk.Any person you left who makes silent late night calls with no caller ID is a jerk, but you canu2019t know for certain it is this person, though most likely it is.

If youu2019ve left this person, thatu2019s it, end of that relationship, finito. Forget it. Switch your phone off overnight.

Believe me, bad news, really bad news, always makes it through somehow, and I speak from experience of the days when no one carried personal phones (they werenu2019t invented then) and two police officers knocked on your door in the small hours instead because the person theyu2019re calling about went straight from ER to surgery and we didnu2019t have phone numbers or next-of-kin for them yet; lucky to have a name, sometimes.So you wonu2019t miss anything by switching your phone off.You can also get apps that block u2018privateu2019 or u2018withheldu2019 numbers.

I never answered those in broad daylight, let alone the middle of the night, and now we have apps or phones that block them.It doesnu2019t matter a !@#$%$#@ if someone hoovers or not, unless you like the excitement of answering/not-answering calls or reading texts or social media messages.

If youu2019re serious about leaving this person, block all those. Hereu2019s what youu2019re in for with hoovering, apart from more aggro and angst, or the delirium of thinking youu2019ve taught him a lesson and now you can return to Rosy La La Land with him (Rosy La La Land has an even more shortened use-by date and a nastier ending than the first):The 11 Most Common Narcissistic Hoovering Tactics - Free From Toxic

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How many programming language does a professional programmer know?

There is only one programming language a programmer must know: C.

C is as close as you can get to the hardware while still writing cross-platform code. (LLVM IR and C-- may be closer, but, as far as I know, they are only used as compiler targets. )If you know C, you know how memory works, and you will understand other languages more.

Every language that matters can call C object code. It's the lingua Franca of programming.However, you should also learn a few other languages, depending what domain you're in.

C is a great for smaller programs and libraries, but the kinds of bugs you can get in C are NASTY, and you have to basically implement everything from scratch in C. Ain't nobody got time for thatbesides User-13647972206346487588 and Linus Torvalds.SQL is also one everyone should know, not because the language is fantastic, but because relational databases are fantastic, and they are everywhere.

Other than that, whatever. I heard people like Java, C and JavaScript. I mostly use Python and Julia and play with Haskell and Lisp, but sometimes I hold my nose and write JavaScript because it runs in the browser and the browser is the ultimate GUI application distribution platform (and runtime).

I don't care what specific languages you know, but here are some recommendations:An OO language. Java or C# if you want to be pragmatic, Smalltalk if you want to learn it properly.A functional language.

Haskell is the archetype, but Clojure or Erlang are also cool. OCaml is my favorite these days.Some kind of Lisp.

A Scheme (probably Racket) if you just want the learning experience. Common Lisp if you want to get stuff done. All programmers must experience Lisp macros/symbolic metaprogramming.

A dynamically-typed, scripting language (whatever that means). Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Perl, Lua, Julia. Smalltalk and Lisp are dynamically-typed, but they are never referred to as scripting languages, perhaps because they are not ideal for automation.

Not sure why.A statically typed language with generics. Java, C, C#, OCaml, Haskell, Rust, etcetera ad infinitum, Amen.

Learn Factor if you want your mind blown.If you bothered to learn C properly, like I told you, learn Rust, too. It's the safe version of C or something.

edit: this is obviously not really true, but its a language that was designed to be useful for the same kinds of things as C and C while avoiding aspects that make them unsafe.Learn AWK, because I like it and I'm the one making the list. Maybe not entirely practical