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Is it still a glue language if you have more glue than material? :P I also find it very hard to believe that using two programming languages can be easier than
by blub 16y ago
Is it still a glue language if you have more glue than material? :P
I also find it very hard to believe that using two programming languages can be easier than using one. This affects team core skills, build systems, testing, debugging(!)... pretty much everything is the more complicated the more languages you use.
- nostrademons 16y agoIf you have more glue than material, you're doing it right. Most projects are like that - that's the whole reason you're using a scripting language, so you can get the productivity benefits for the ~90% that doesn't need to be performance critical. And it's true that the more languages you use, the more complicated things become - but C++ itself is really at least 4 languages glued together (C, object-oriented C++, template metaprogramming C++, and the STL; citation: "Effective C++") and they often don't play well together, so switching down to Python + C, you cut that in half.