Re: Some exciting new trends in concurrency and software design

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:03:41 +0200, Nasser M. Abbasi <nma@12000.org> a  
écrit:
> 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.
Yes, but the intent was mainly to say the danger is to use only one for  
everything. I know the topic of choosing which is better for what, is less  
easily solved than suggested.

> 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 :)
Sorry, I don't even believe that :p (not joking)
I would prefer say: it is in many occasions a best choice (and better than  
typical choice at least), but not always for everything.

If you search a bit, you will come with examples yourself.

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