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Steve Yegge: What the Next Big Language Will Be

63 replies on 5 pages. Most recent reply: Feb 20, 2007 11:39 PM by Andrew Inggs

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Dick Ford

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Re: Steve Yegge: What the Next Big Language Will Be Posted: Feb 20, 2007 10:00 AM
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> > Nothing is pain free in interop. C just happens to be
> the
> > least painful at this time.
>
> Because as an accident of history most (all?) current
> commercially significant OS are written in C (or C++).

Most of IT is "accidental", but generally C is a lowest-common denominator because of its procedural nature. Even today, most systems libraries are written in C and not C++.

Dick Ford

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Re: Steve Yegge: What the Next Big Language Will Be Posted: Feb 20, 2007 10:02 AM
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> Can we please get rid of C? most of the problems in IT is
> due to C :-).

For the most part, C has been "gotten rid of" at the applications level. I'd argue that we need to "get rid of" C++ more than C though.

John Calcote

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Re: Steve Yegge: What the Next Big Language Will Be Posted: Feb 20, 2007 10:40 AM
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I would have to agree regarding ECMAScript - perhaps 2.0, except for the performance issue. This was the first thing that came to mind as soon as I read the first couple of points made by the original poster.

Andrew Inggs

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Bruce Eckel has come to a similar conclusion Posted: Feb 20, 2007 11:39 PM
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As several people have pointed out, I believe Steve is referring to ECMAScript, and I think the clues come from all the ActionScript/Flash/Flex/Apollo news flashes. That said, I'm surprised nobody has linked to Bruce Eckel's Hybridizing Java article http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=193593 here on Artima, where he comes to similar conclusions, although Bruce still advocates using Java on the back end.

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