Well, it's been my observation that the "down and dirty" languages make it. C is one of those -- it gives much freedom; Pascal (made for teaching students programming) is strongly-typed. In other words, a pain.
FORTRAN because it was the first; COBOL because it appealed to suits.
Assembler because it rulez!!! ;->
I hope Ruby is one that frees programmers. From the conversations on ruby-talk, this appears to be the case. I slipped Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP into a staid corporate environment. It plus Jabber became the intranet for the company I worked for.
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Hello Ted,
Thursday, December 12, 2002, 2:00:28 AM, you wrote:
>> 2. Java is in vogue. They want the language to be there after 10-20
>> years...> Unfortunately, people rise in management by NOT making waves...
it's the MATZ'S position that Ruby will never be REAL WORLD language.
it's his own toy and never will appreciate features needed for
corporate use--
Best regards,
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