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November 15, 2004

Fascinating Article on Software Monoculture

Props for dissing C/C++ myopism. Let's move into the 5th generation languages, people!

This also colludes nicely with recent Microsoft postings about why they're keeping C# and VB.NET in rough parity (plus or minus some refactoring issues). Of course, both run off the IL, so there's another monoculture. But there's Java, which is isomorphic to C# (or vice-versa, really) and based on a different below-covers paradigm

Also reminds me to "write into a language, not in a language" as Steve McConnell is so fond of saying.

What are shaping up to be the sixth-gen langauages? Is anybody talking, because I want to be clued in!

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