Re: Language for something simple

"simple" is always relative.

In Perl it's very simple to do some basic string processing, uniquifying values through hashes and so on.

In C it's very simple to write some calculation which just need a million arithmetic calculations.

In Prolog it's very simple to search for relations in a graphs (for example determine cousinship relations between two people).

In many languages it's simple task to write a program or a problem that is mostly solved by a ready-made library already exists.

And finally "simple" also depends on how familiar you are with a language.

Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.

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Re^2: Language for something simple by PeterPeiGuo (Hermit) on Mar 08, 2010 at 08:02 UTC
It's true, whether it is simple to do something in a language is, a lot times, determined by the libraries that are readily available. Take this a step further, in today's world, it is not only about whether you have couple of libraries handy, often times it is also about whether you have a framework for certain jobs, this is particularly true for all web applications. In the same webcast, it was jokingly (or not so much jokingly) mentioned that now people probably use 14 frameworks in one application. For example, in a ASP.Net web application, you may use entity framework for database access, jquery (as a framework) to ease javascript development, and don't forget that ASP.Net itself is a framework...	[reply]

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Re^2: Language for something simple
by PeterPeiGuo (Hermit) on Mar 08, 2010 at 08:02 UTC

It's true, whether it is simple to do something in a language is, a lot times, determined by the libraries that are readily available.

Take this a step further, in today's world, it is not only about whether you have couple of libraries handy, often times it is also about whether you have a framework for certain jobs, this is particularly true for all web applications.

In the same webcast, it was jokingly (or not so much jokingly) mentioned that now people probably use 14 frameworks in one application. For example, in a ASP.Net web application, you may use entity framework for database access, jquery (as a framework) to ease javascript development, and don't forget that ASP.Net itself is a framework...

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