The Next Big Language

[Pelle]

On 10/18/2010 03:18 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Yes, here is a summary of programming languages killer features.
>
> C - The official language to develop for Unix
> C++ - Provided a path for OOP programming to C developers, created at the
>          same company that "owned" Unix
> Pascal - Provided a very good way to learn structured programming
> Perl - Was a the right place for mixing shell scripting and text
> manipulation
> Python - Started as a better Perl, Zope helped it get known, now used in HPC
> to script applications
> Javascript - If it wasn't for the browser it wouldn't be used at all
> Ruby - Without Rails, people still wouln't care about it, most likely
> Groovy - Provided a Ruby like programming environment for programmers in the
> Java world
> Objective-C - The official way to develop for iPhone/iPad (for sure it
> counts more than just OSX)
> Java - Oracle(Sun) and IBM give huge support to it. Plus the way it is used
> in universities around the world
> C# - Microsoft is making it the official .Net systems language
> Scala - Seems to be the next big language in the JVM
> Haskell, F# - Multicore is making functional programming more mainstream.
> Plus Microsoft money.
>
> There are probably more examples, that I have forgotten.
>
> So the question is, what could the D killer feature be?
>
> --
> Paulo
>

Being better than all of the above.

But that's just, like, my opinion. :-)