The Next Big Language

[Paulo Pinto]

Hi,

this is usually not a problem, because in many scenarios people are more 
than
happy to mix languages.

I for one, am language agnostic, because I always use the appropriate 
language
for the project at hand, and don't have any problem mixing languages.

In the Telecom industry which I know quite well,  C and C++ are slowly being 
relagated to places
where they are the only viable option, usually due to hardware constraints. 
In some pieces of equipment
C++ is already too big to fit in. But when there is an option, the 
implementation language tends to be
a higher level language (Java, .Net, Erlang), specially due to the available 
tooling.

I think that is a mistake to expect "a language to rule them all" scenario.

--
Paulo



"dennis luehring" <dl.soluz at gmx.net> wrote in message 
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> Am 18.10.2010 10:34, schrieb dennis luehring:
>>>  My question is how many D like languages came up with an open source
>>>  compiler? Why do people keep using that argument again and again?
>>
>> and second
>>
>> how many of these "other" languages got an community driven development
>> processes (aren't there always "these five keyplayers" around?)
>
> another point is that most of todays dynamic languages are based more or 
> less on the java vm or .net (with some exceptions)
>
> but this won't help in an "static" like lanquage like D because
> it adresses also near to system programming that is in these worlds only 
> "fakeable" -> what should i do with the inline-asm inside of an java/.net 
> vm, how to fake ptr-arithmetic-stuff for c-linkage parties
> these are often forgotten backend problems