From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-08-06T08:09:41+09:00
Subject: Re: [mildly OT] JVM Languages group

Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> John Joyce wrote:
>> interesting.
>> seems to be a common theme these days.
>> compiling to an intermediary language,
>> gcc
>> MS's CLR.
>> But a Java based solution certainly increases the
>> distribution/availability of any language (and software in it).
>> However, in Java tradition, perhaps it will just be "write once, debug
>> everywhere" again?
> 
> Let's hope not :) Seriously though, it seems like the time is ripe for
> all the dozens of JVM language implementations (including two separate
> Ruby implementations!) to work together on the platform as a whole. With
> Java being open-sourced and polyglot programming becoming the hot new
> thing, it's a no-brainer to start collaborating in this sort of group.
> 
> - Charlie
> 
> 
Polyglot programming? Sure, I know a whole bunch of programming
languages, but I'm not at all sure that's a good thing, and I'm even
less sure that I want to learn Python, PHP or *any* dialect of C other
than C itself. There are as far as I'm concerned only two reasons to
learn a programming language:

1. Because I get paid to use it, or
2. It has some new concepts that will make me a better overall programmer.

Hence, I am learning Ruby and Erlang, and I learned FORTRAN,
Lisp/Scheme, C, Forth, Perl and R.