Linked by Takuya Murata on Tue 18th May 2004 06:26 UTC
My physics teacher likes to say that physics like to make problems they face look like ones that they know how to solve. A simple harmonic oscillation was one he frequently used in class, as is presumably the case in physics in general.
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I have a developer friend that does everything he can do in either 100% C or in assembly. I can see using it for speed in certain situations, but when it's extremely complex or just not speed-intensive, give me OOP any day. The ease of use and quick development cycle far out-weigh any type of speed advantage.
I find most of the development time is spent getting the product perfect to my end users. I would much rather spend time there getting interfacing and mechanics right than spend alot of time over syntax and deployment.
@Mat - I agree this sounds alot like the VB programmer chant; I have to say though, if my first language was VB, I probably wouldn't look to use much else. For what most people use it for, it 'just works', and is very popular (I'm no VB man- to tell the truth me and a VB guy at my job 'compete' language wise).