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- From: erc@netcom.com (Eric Smith)
- Subject: Re: Newbie Wants Advice on C-Programming
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.120344.13694@netcom.com>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 12:03:44 GMT
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- In article <C003EI.H3u@news.udel.edu> bew@brahms.udel.edu (Ben Williams) writes:
- > Yes, isn't it interesting that two of the most popular general purpose
- >languages for writing applications software were not designed to be used to
- >write application software. Has anyone written a general purpose language
- >to do what I would think is the most common use of computer programming -
- >to write application programs? And if this/these exist, what are they and
- >how do you rate them? [just curious]
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- By general purpose, you mean to exclude SQL, APL, Yacc, Awk, etc., right?
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- When programmers invent new programming languages to write application
- programs, the application programs they have in mind are usually those
- they have done in the past and/or those they are doing at the time. For
- that reason, a really general purpose language has to be invented by
- hundreds of programmers. That means it has to evolve over a number of
- years before it will be really general. Thus C++ etc.
-