Re: Distributed Systems Annex, data sharing between programs

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

On 5 Cze, 18:02, Adam Beneschan <a...@irvine.com> wrote:

> I still think this would be useful in some situations--for example, if the server and clients were expected to be used within one company (or one division of a company), so that it might be reasonable to expect that all programs be written in a common language.

I'm afraid not even then. My work consists mostly of implementing
middleware solutions for multi-language (mostly C++/Java) systems that
are developed within the same division of a single company. I seem to
see this pattern more and more often, wherever I go.

Interestingly, even if you focus on programs written by the same
person (you cannot get more control than that, right?), there is still
no guarantee that they will be written in the same language, as
different languages have different features and tradeoffs that justify
their use in different contexts. Java-based GUI displays for Ada-based
backends that are configured by Python-based scripts, all using C++-
based databases? Better get used to that.

This is what makes single-language-distributed-systems solutions kind
of pointless.

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Maciej Sobczak * http://www.msobczak.com * http://www.inspirel.com