RE: One language environment don't have future

["Beard, Frank Randolph CIV" <frank.beard@navy.mil>]

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From: Preben Randhol [mailto:randhol+news@pvv.org]

spam@not.come wrote:
>> I think what time of traditional language system is gone. 
>> The successfull future systems will be like .Net - one development 
>> environment for many call-compatible languages, with single runtime, 
>> single language-neitral set of libraries, single language-neitral 
>> OS interface. 

> Sounds to me like you are talking about several languages one executable
> standard?
>
> Besides how will your VB programmer be able to change a part of a
> project written in C++/Ada/whatever unless he also learns this language?

I think he's talking about the development environment and not the language.
Sort of like what DEC did with their systems.  If memory serves me correctly,
every language (Fortran, C, Pascal, Ada, ...) compiled to an intermediate
language.  Their debugger looked and worked the same no matter which one you
were using.  So, when you switched languages, all you really had to learn
was the new language.

So, I guess you would come in, select a language, develop with it, and then
compile to the intermediate.

Frank