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COBOL when business people needed computers but didn't want engineers. Fortran when engineers wanted something nicer than ASM. C++ when object oriented was ta
by ripter 14y ago
COBOL when business people needed computers but didn't want engineers.
Fortran when engineers wanted something nicer than ASM.
C++ when object oriented was taking off but people had already invested in C.
Ada for the military.
His argument still holds up for these languages.
- lispm 14y agoIf you call them 'scripting language' and accept that, then the idea of a 'scripting language' is useless. Ada is the implementation language of all kinds of real-time software. It's not a scripting language at all. C++ is also not a scripting language. Games for example have their core written in C++ and might have an added scripting language. That a language is used in a domain, does not make it its 'scripting language'.
- ripter 14y agoThe term 'scripting language' is useless. If you are getting hung up on that term then you are missing the point.