By mihaicampean
via hypersynapse.blogspot.com
Published: Feb 08 2008 / 03:09
Last week I had an interesting discussion with one of my friends and colleagues about the the ongoing programming language hypes and He said he believed that about 80% of the programmers community is still waiting for "The Ultimate Programming Language", a language good for programming everything they may think of.
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Comments
robse replied ago:
I think he has sucessfully moved the problem one layer up:
"The truth is that certain languages are good for certain things"
now becomes
The truth is that certain platforms are good for certain things
Mihai Campean replied ago:
Good point, but still a platform supporting multiple languages, will be better at doing more "certain things" than a single language by itself :).
edaj replied ago:
The best language I have seen to date is Scala
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