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GeneralRe: Programming languages: These top four rule and developers are happy - for now Pin
Peter_in_278010-Nov-22 10:27
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trønderen11-Nov-22 7:24
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
Choose the language that best expresses your problem.
That is one essential thing with .net. You can use one language for describing the screen layout, another one to describe the main program logic, yet another one for, say, matrix operations. It fits easily together, and it works!

Actually, it was very much the same thing in the old days, when an OS came with a single relocatable format, different compilers generating this format. Then came the integrated systems that only very reluctantly accepted to call functions in another language (and usually, that was one other language!), not generating modules for others to call. Languages added, say, object concepts, each in their own way. They defined their own calling conventions, their own string format, array formats ... and it all broke into pieces that could not be assembled.

Maybe .net will break up in similar ways. But for now, it is a great case of choose your language freely, for each individual functional area, and it all fits nicely together. Just like it used to be thirty or forty years ago, but also covering object concepts, GUI concepts, threads and processes. Great!
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