[Info-vax] DIBOL-11

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/11/2023 12:51 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> 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:
>>>>> 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.

There are good reasons for companies to limit themselves to
one or at least just a few of those.

But company A may chose a different 1-3 of from the larger
set than company B.

Resulting the number of languages being in the market
being much bigger.

Arne