[Info-vax] DIBOL-11

[Dave Froble]

On 3/11/2023 7:43 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 3/11/2023 1:24 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 3/10/2023 7:15 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
>>> On 10/03/2023 23:56, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> They had Cobol, Basic and PL/I among what I would
>>>> call clearly business oriented languages plus Pascal,
>>>> Fortran and Ada  that also sometimes was used for
>>>> such programming.
>>>>
>>>> But I am not so surprised they wanted Dibol as well.
>>>> There tend to always be a pretty broad palette of
>>>> programming languages for such general purpose.
>>>> Different domains, different developer preferences
>>>> etc. tend to steer towards many programming languages.
>>>> Having 4 or 7 languages does not seem
>>>> excessive to me.
>>>>
>>>> If someone wanted to start such an application today,
>>>> then they would have even more choices. Java, Scala, Kotlin,
>>>> Groovy, C#, VB.NET, PHP and Python are definitely used for such
>>>> plus C, C++ and Go are also used for such.
>>>
>>> I am sure you could add a few more...
>>>
>>
>> But why would you want to ??
>
> Point is that for programming languages people seems to
> have different preferences resulting in demand for a large
> number of different programming languages.

The problem with that concept is that maintenance is a bit harder, if 
maintainers are not familiar with all the languages, then misconceptions can 
lead to mistakes.  It goes back to my dissatisfaction with programmers who like 
to be different/smarter.  Most/all programming will eventually need maintenance.


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