On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 16:08:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) wrote: > I argue that it's a false opposition to categorize projects in > terms of use of single languages. Many projects are MUCH better > off with a mix
In practice I have *never* worked on an industrial scale project that only used one language. The nearest I came was a small protocol convertor that only used C, SQL and some shell and awk - but that's still 4 languages! And the whole project was only 40,000 lines of code in about 20 files. And most projects use many more, I'd guess around 5-8 on an "average project" of around 300-500kloc. The biggest project I worked on had about 3.5Mloc and used: Assembler (680x0 and Sparc), C C++ Lisp(Flavors) awk Bourne shell C shell - this was a mistake discovered too late to "fix" PL/SQL ???? - A UI description language for a tool called TeleUse... Pascal - No, I don't know why... ASN.1 - with a commercial compiler We also had some IDL but since it was tool generated I'll ignore it... We also had an experimental version running on a NeXt box so it used Objective C for the UI instead of ???? and C++... A total of 13 languages... with 5 geographically dispersed teams comprising a total of 200 developers (plus about 40 testers). Interesting times...in the Chinese sense! Alan G Author of the Learn to Program website http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
