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The Problem Of Developing

Posted by Hemos on from the how-to-develop-code dept.

A reader writes "ZDNet News is running an editorial about the choice of programming languages for developers today. The author suggests that developers have been left with little choice because all of the current programming languages are essentially the same."

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  1. bunch of crap by mrpotato · · Score: 5, Informative
    The article doesn't say anything, and is really aimed at manager-type people.

    Example:
    Look at some of the other languages that have been ported to the CLR. In every case, those languages have had to lose something important that made them different to fit the common dominator offered by the CLR. Microsoft has brought the notion of skins to programming indeed.
    (emphasis mine)

    What a gratuitous (and feeble) claim. The author obviously think that about 3 languages exists: C(and friends), Java and VB.

    Some functionnal languages have been successfully ported to the CLR, and they didn't need to be amputated for that.

    For example, Standard ML and Mercury. Both have been succesfully ported to the CLR without violence to those languages.

    So, in conclusion, I agree that when you know only 3 procedural/OO languages you might be under the impression that all languages look alike.

    Move along, nothing to see here.

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    cheers