Hallöchen! Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> [...] > > I notice that the Wikipedia doesn't have a definition for "special > purpose language", instead preferring the phrase "Domain Specific > Langauge". That matches the definition that agrees with what I > think is common usage, which is: > > Trade some of the flexibility of a general purpose language > for capabilities that are more tailored to a specific task > > Fortran certainly meets the requirements the wikipedia has for > being a general purpose language. As does TeX. I don't think that this adds anything to the argumentation. >>> [...] Just like some C/C++ applications are legacy code, and some >>> aren't. Which contradicts your earlier assertion that C/C++ >>> applications were all legacy code. >> >> Reference? > > See <URL: > http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/c52d3c17f1ea9ec5/d2013c3f1eef49b9?q=wheel+reinvention&rnum=1#d2013c3f1eef49b9 >>, where you dismiss all C applications a legacy code. This URL points to an article by Paul McNett. Probably you mean >>> [...] By which measure C is still immensely popular, because of >>> the large number of older applications that are written in it >>> that are available - Python being one such. > > Legacy code is not a sign of success IMO because it implies a > difficult future. Calling "older applications" "legacy code" is very different from calling C/C++ a legacy code language. > [...] > >> [...] I just want to use a popular langauge amongst the ones >> that have free success ("free" in the sense of Free Software). > > These leaves me with three questions for you: > > Is there a free language you consider successful? Before the quibbling starts again: What do you mean with "free language"? For me, that's every language that I can use using exclusively Free Software tools. > [...] > > Are there any free language that have the GUI/IDE toolkit you > want? I don't know. I haven't seen it yet. Maybe Eclipse + SWT? > Have you noticed that languages with really cool features aren't > very popular? This is probably true, but "really cool features" tend to become "exotic features". I don't need them, neither the masses. A good GUI toolkit is a nice "cool thing" to have. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
