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Artificial languages for instructing computers to do steps of computation in order to complete tasks. They allow programmers to communicate with computers.
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Finding a new programming language for web development?
In my latest web-project I started with PHP because I had used it for web-project before (quick start), but I had many problems with the language e.g bad UTF-8 support and dynamic typing. I also have …
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Why are there so many programming languages? Why are new languages still being made?
Programming languages evolve
New programming languages often learn from existing languages and add, remove and combine features in a new way. There is a few different paradigms like object oriented a …
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What drives the adoption, or not, of new programming languages?
Languages becomes popular because they have an advantage over existing languages in an area that is needed.
Java
Automatic memory management (compare with C++ and C)
Language/API built in Threading …
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How would you design a programming language?
I definitely think that functional programming languages will catch on, so my language will be functional. See Taming Effects with Functional Programming
I think the CPUs soon will have hundreads of …
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What are the most popular IDEs per language?
Erlang - Emacs
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Languages to complement C++
Erlang
I recommend Erlang. C++ is mostly used for performance, but it doesn't have great support for large scale concurrency. With that in mind Elrang would be a great complement since it has great c …
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Killer semi-unique programming language features
Send
From Erlang. Sends a message asynchronous to another thread.
Expr1 ! Expr2
Receive
From Erlang. Receives a message from another thread.
receive
Pattern1 [when GuardSeq1] ->
Body …
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Would you use C, today, for a software project?
C is a great language for System programming
I would use C if I implemented some harware drivers. And I would use C if I implement my own Operating System kernel or my own Virtual Machine.
It is a ver …
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Would you still use Java in your next project, despite the whole mess in JCP
Yes, I would. Java is one of the most widely spread programming languages so Java will exist for a long time.
I don't think it's many languages that can compete with Java as of today. It has a huge u …
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Why these attempts to water down Scala with Xtend and Kotlin?
I have used Scala a few months in Eclipse with Play Framework. I like the language but there is also things that I don't like.
For me, the reason to switch from Java to another language is to be more …
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What are the most popular IDEs per language?
C --- Emacs
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What do you wish language designers paid attention to?
Lightweight Processes
I would like to have Lightweight Processes as in Erlang. It's mainly a problem for the runtime. This is missing in JVM and .NET CLR. LWP helps for creating massively concurrent …
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If we can do functional programming with Python, do we need a specific functional programmin...
The languages you mention are very different.
While Python and Ruby is dynamically typed languages, Haskell is statically typed. Erlang is a concurrent language and uses the Actor model and is very d …
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For what reasons should I choose C# over Java and C++?
The Environment
.NET Framework and Windows clients
Windows is the dominating Operating System on client computers. The best GUI frameworks for Windows applications is Winforms and WPF together with .N …
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Do dynamic typed languages deserve all the criticism? [closed]
I have read a few articles on Internet about programming language choice in the enterprise. Recently many dynamic typed languages have been popular, i.e. Ruby, Python, PHP and Erlang. But many enterpr …
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