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Is there a language other than basic that you can actually use without libraries? (edit) Without eventually making your own?
by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Is there a language other than basic that you can actually use without libraries?
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Without eventually making your own?
- 83457 17y agoDo you mean a language where you just copy and paste code around instead of building libraries?
- randallsquared 17y agoWell, some languages have so much apparent power that it's easy to be seduced into thinking you hardly need libraries, since you can just build it yourself right quick. Common Lisp, for example.
- gaius 17y agoBut then you do need a library and run slam into a brick wall and realize you should have just used Python...
- 83457 17y agoIf a language includes more than just processing directives and code organization then that becomes more of a language/platform/framework than just a language. Often these are geared to a specific domain such as desktop or web software and try to give you tools that you'll most often need. If you don't need additional libraries then you are probably doing things that the authors of the language/platform/framework thought would be necessary. The other language language/platform/framework, which I am familiar with, is ColdFusion. If you are doing web development and fit with-in only the functionality available to you by default then you are fine. If you want to abstract away certain things or do more than average web development then outside libraries are necessary, especially in the user-interface side of things.