[Info-vax] Rust as a HS language, was: Re: Quiet?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/7/2022 9:08 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 4/7/2022 8:01 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 
>> Bad developers go for DIY methods and tools.
> 
> Let me ask, just where do you think good methods and tools come from?

Good point.

Bad developers go for DIY methods and tools.

Ordinary good developers stand on the shoulders of giants.

Brilliant developers develop one or a few methods and tools
where they find a better way than what exist and stand on
shoulders of giants for the rest.

>> Good developers stand on the shoulders of giants.
> 
> Where do you think the giants come from?
> 
> Hint, it is NOT academia!

The original "If I have seen further it is by standing on the sholders
of Giants" was definitely about academia. But Newtons field was math
and physics not software development.

When it comes to software development some come from academia and
some from elsewhere (commercial, military, community).

Since the original topic was programming languages I picked 25
languages and checked:

Academic:

Lisp (MIT)
Basic (Dartmouth)
Algol (Zurich)
Pascal (Zurich)
C (Bell)
Modula-2 (Zurich)
C++ (Bell)
Python (CWI)
Scala (Lausanne)

Commercial:

Fortran (IBM)
Java (Sun)
JavaScript (NetScape)
C# (Microsoft)
Kotlin (Jetbrains)
Go (Google)
Dart (Ggogle)
Swift (Apple)
TypeScript (Microsoft)

Military:

Cobol
Ada

Community:

PHP
Ruby
Groovy
Rust

Arne