Re: gEDA-user: interesting links

["Samuel A. Falvo II" <sam.falvo@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/30/07, Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> and my typical question..  are those really well supported on a wide
> variety of operating systems on a wide variety of hardware platforms?

From a purely pragmatic point of view, I agree that this is a valid
and important question.  The disadvantage to letting this influence
the decision is that newer, perhaps more applicable, languages don't
get the adoption they need to compete fairly in the "language
marketplace."  People then tend to get the mistaken attitude that
because a language B isn't adopted widely, it must be inferior to
language A.  (The mistake being, "inferiority" is relative to some
local criteria, but the criteria is used globally.)

Maybe with upcoming virtual machine architectures like Parrot, this
will slowly fade away.  Theoretically, JVM is equally adept at this,
but it's a pretty heavyweight solution, often involving not only the
JVM but also the libraries that come along with it too.  Hopefully,
Parrot will be substantially faster than JVM.

This is why I make it a point to learn as many languages as I can.  :)

-- 
Samuel A. Falvo II


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