On Thursday, November 15, 2001, at 01:22 PM, Ted Ashton wrote:
> Thus it was written in the epistle of Shawn Gordon,
>> On Thursday, November 15, 2001, at 11:12 AM, Kyle Kelton wrote:
>>
>>> Given the announcement of the demise of the HP3000 (very unhappy),
>>> what
>>> are the prevailing programming languages and databases in the UNIX
>>> environment?
>>>
>> C and C++, then you can look at OO scripting languages like Python
>
> Also Perl, Pascal and Fortran (as well as numerous other languages
> which are
> not on the 3000). COBOL and Business Basic projects are both underway
> at GNU.
>
oh there are a zillion languages guile, scheme, camel, eifel, rebol,
etc.,etc., but if you are trying to be in the main stream then you need
to focus on what people are using (and yes I left Perl off by mistake,
but I don't think i would build an application system in Perl).
i've watched the Tiny COBOL project (if that is the one you are
referring to), but they've all been pretty stagnat whatever their
current state is. This is the main problem with fringe OSS projects,
people loose interest and walk away and they never get finished. if
they are popular enough to have built critical mass, then they will
typically be kept going.
shawn
> Ted
> --
> Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist
> University
> ==========================================================
> There are in this world optimists who feel that any symbol that starts
> off
> with an integral sign must necessarily denote something that will have
> every
> property that they should like an integral to possess. This of course is
> quite annoying to us rigorous mathematicians; what is even more
> annoying is
> that by doing so they often come up with the right answer.
> -- McShane, E. J.
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