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I'm all for advancement, but this feels like overload. We have each of the big companies promoting their own languages. Microsoft: Visual Basic, Apple/NeXT: Ob

I'm all for advancement, but this feels like overload. We have each of the big companies promoting their own languages. Microsoft: Visual Basic, Apple/NeXT: Objective-C, Bell Labs: C and C++, Sun: Java... I'm sure I could keep going, but that seems to be the trend lately. You can't be a big company and not have your own programming language. By the way, C# has been around for 17 years.

thekingofh 10y ago
True. And it's a beautiful language. I'm not necessarily knocking the other languages either. It's just that it seems that the fragmentation is becoming an issue, when all that development effort doesn't seem to necessarily be generating more value. I'm sure it's possible by all of this experimentation someone will stumble upon the next Javascript, or the next C. So there may be a benefit in the long run. Or maybe not.