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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: Some exciting new trends in concurrency and software design
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:03:41 -0700
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On 6/23/2011 2:23 AM, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:

> My small-talk: this is simply failing with the simple rule which is “use
> the best language for what it is best suited”. Troubles comes when you
> want only one for everything.
>

This is true in principle, but sometimes in practice there
are other considerations.

One language, even though it might not be as "good" as
another for use on the same problem, might happen
to have a much larger library, or much better supporting
tools (debugger, GUI builder, cross compiler, etc...) or
much better support, books, help, and such, and all these things
add up in making developing in it more "convenient" than the
other (better) language.

I mean, when deciding which is the "best" language
for a problem, one must look beyond the language itself.

If it was just the language which decides, then everyone
should be using Ada, because we all know Ada is the best
language there is :)


--Nasser