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[Patrick Stewart]

Paulo Pinto Wrote:

> Am 01.12.2011 12:59, schrieb Patrick Stewart:
> >> I think one reason for the movement toward Java and JVM style languages is
> >> that hardware is getting cheaper and cheaper, and developers cost the same
> >> or more.  With a 'simpler to write' 'quicker to write' language like Java
> >> (where you don't have to learn things like manual memory management) you
> >> can more easily train programmers, and they will be cheaper also.  Then,
> >> you can 'fix' any performance issues you have with better hardware, for
> >> less than the cost of training/paying a C/C++ developer to re-develop it.
> >> It makes business sense.
> >>
> >> Regan
> >
> > Bingo. Give the man a cookie. Anyway, if there was no C/C++, in what language would we build compilers :) ?
> 
> In Ada, Modula-2, Modula-3, Oberon, Component Pascal, Pascal, Delphi, 
> Bartok just as possible examples?
> 
> There were programming languages before C and C++ existed, and surely 
> there will be other systems programming languages. D might be such sucessor.

Perl, Python, PHP, Java, Haskell, Lua, Ruby... Not quite sure, but this comes to my mind as languages which  are written mostly or completely in C. I guess it beats by far any other listed language we can use for building compilers. Correct me if I'm wrong, it is a nice day for learning something new.