Language Niches (long)

[Grant Edwards]

On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 21:44:37 +0100, Robin Becker <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <mailman.996429234.13926.python-list at python.org>, Paul
>Prescod <paulp at ActiveState.com> writes
>>Robin Becker wrote:
>>> 
>>> ...
>>> I believe that well designed languages define their own niche.
>>
>>I can give you many examples of beautiful languages that fell into
>>disuse. Sather, Modula-X  and Objective-C jump to mind. The eternally
>>minor languages like Common Lisp, Scheme, Eiffel and Smalltalk are also
>>worth consideration. 
>>
>>Now let's examine some of the other languages out there:
>>
>> * For a long time, C was the only way to do system programming for Unix
>
>what language does one use nowadays.

AFAIK, all Unix system programming is still done in C.  (At least
that's true for the Unices I'm familiar with (SCO, Solaris,
BSD, Linux).

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