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BOO! A New Programming Language

By Cristi Potlog
Created 2006-03-17 06:24

Why do we need another programming language [1]? Especialy if it brings nothing new, or it's not revolutionary in any way. Maybe because somebody [2] likes to play God and believes He's created something while actualy reinventing the wheel.

Why don't implement a .NET version of Ruby [3], or any other modern dynamic language [4]?

Microsoft [5] itself is taking this approach by building IronPython [6]. I think I'll just wait for IronPython [7] to coook up and then give it a try.

I believe, though, it's shame that Microsoft [8] did't thought more seriosly back then about the fisrt version of VB.NET [9]. It would have been a far better approach if they have started with a dynamic view in mind, and give VB a new life instead of just make it an untalented step brother of the poster child for .NET - C# [10].

(Cool name though)

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Cristi Potlog
http://cristipotlog.blogspot.com [11]

Source URL:
http://www.developerdotstar.com/community/community/node/446

Links:
[1] http://boo.codehaus.org/
[2] http://docs.codehaus.org/display/~bamboo
[3] http://www.ruby-lang.org/
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_language
[5] http://www.microsoft.com/
[6] http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/ironpython/
[7] http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/ironpython/
[8] http://www.microsoft.com/
[9] http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/
[10] http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/
[11] http://cristipotlog.blogspot.com