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

[Dan Cross]

In article <62504527$0$706$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>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)

While true, this is a big of a misnomer.  Go is the latest in a
series of languages designed around CSP as the fundamental
concurrency primitive; the other four were done by the same
people at Bell Labs.

I'm not sure I'd describe Bell Labs as an academic institution,
but it probably shares more characteristics with academia than
it does with "industry."

>Dart (Ggogle)
>Swift (Apple)
>TypeScript (Microsoft)
>
>Military:
>
>Cobol
>Ada

Ada came out a committee that was a mixture of public and
private sector members and academics.  It's true it was formed
at the behest of the US DoD and targetting military applications
but I'm not sure I'd call its design "military".
http://archive.adaic.com/pol-hist/history/holwg-93/holwg-93.htm

Similarly with COBOL.  It came out of CODASYL, which was again
joint industry/public sector, but not specifically military.

>Community:
>
>PHP
>Ruby
>Groovy
>Rust

Actually, Rust came from Mozilla.

	- Dan C.