Posted by: Anonymous
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on January 19, 2008 12:02 PM
Ruby is screwed.. Haskell will not catc on. C++ takes its time because it is doing the right thing, engineering, not hacking another VM that will be written in it. Just like your Ruby is written in awful C, JVM and CLR are written in well, not so impressive, C++.
All those new languages are toys for enthusiasts, and the academia guys whilst very smart were, let's face it, never in touch with the commercial side.
It is that simple: C and C++ 'legacy' is not going away and it will keep evolving at a pace that is proven before some Sun vs MSFT vs Oracle vs Open-Source vs Ruby vs Google vs Scripters battle is over. The reason is again very simple: it is the C++ model that can, and *actually* does cover/implement them all.
And it is very easy to cfhange compiler options not to allow typeless programming or whatever you wish..
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 90.193.93.142] on January 19, 2008 12:02 PMAll those new languages are toys for enthusiasts, and the academia guys whilst very smart were, let's face it, never in touch with the commercial side.
It is that simple: C and C++ 'legacy' is not going away and it will keep evolving at a pace that is proven before some Sun vs MSFT vs Oracle vs Open-Source vs Ruby vs Google vs Scripters battle is over. The reason is again very simple: it is the C++ model that can, and *actually* does cover/implement them all.
And it is very easy to cfhange compiler options not to allow typeless programming or whatever you wish..
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