Paulo Pinto Wrote: > Am 01.12.2011 12:59, schrieb Patrick Stewart: > >> I think one reason for the movement toward Java and JVM style languages is > >> that hardware is getting cheaper and cheaper, and developers cost the same > >> or more. With a 'simpler to write' 'quicker to write' language like Java > >> (where you don't have to learn things like manual memory management) you > >> can more easily train programmers, and they will be cheaper also. Then, > >> you can 'fix' any performance issues you have with better hardware, for > >> less than the cost of training/paying a C/C++ developer to re-develop it. > >> It makes business sense. > >> > >> Regan > > > > Bingo. Give the man a cookie. Anyway, if there was no C/C++, in what > > language would we build compilers :) ? > > In Ada, Modula-2, Modula-3, Oberon, Component Pascal, Pascal, Delphi, > Bartok just as possible examples? > > There were programming languages before C and C++ existed, and surely > there will be other systems programming languages. D might be such sucessor.
Perl, Python, PHP, Java, Haskell, Lua, Ruby... Not quite sure, but this comes to my mind as languages which are written mostly or completely in C. I guess it beats by far any other listed language we can use for building compilers. Correct me if I'm wrong, it is a nice day for learning something new.
