Questions tagged [language-choice]
Refers to programming language choices.
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Single vs Multiple Technology Stacks
So... The architecture has recently been put under the reign of a Reference Architect. The Reference architect, I will refer him as RA, started to work and the results were immediately visible: we ...
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When to use known languages/libraries vs. investing in learning new ones?
This question is asked in a general way. In case it is hard to understand, I have added a concrete example below. I am interested in the answer to the general question. I have a lot of experience ...
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Choosing between perl and python for my application [closed]
I am working for a small electronics company and I was assigned a task of re-inventing and re-writing the software for our product delivery flow, which gathers design components, verifies them, and ...
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Should powershell be used to develop a whole application?
We are automating the testing on an Web ERP solution (Dynamics) through a tool (RSAT, which uses selenium) provided by the developer of the ERP (Microsoft). The RSAT has a list of instructions to do ...
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Is Clojure a wrong choice for implementing Data Structures?
I am planning to improve my knowledge of Clojure and algorithms at the same time by implementing some known data structures in Clojure (e.g. linked lists, skip lists, bloom filter, etc.). However, I ...
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What is a good metric for guiding a switch from a prototyping language to a production language? [duplicate]
By "prototyping language", I mean one which was chosen by virtue of it's relative ease of quickly accomplishing the sort of design changes common to prototyping in a particular context. (such as data ...
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Does a Completely Full-Featured Intermediate Language Exist?
Often when translating between languages (whether with program translation or compiling) it's a one-way, destructive translation. The functionality of the "port" isn't lost, but some of the intent ...
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Why the practice of writing unit tests in a different language isn't that popular?
When Microsoft released Visual Studio 2008, there was a thing they were talking a lot about at the conferences and in their online tutorials: the idea of writing the actual code in one language, and ...
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What would be good factual arguments to convince high level management to consider functional programming? [closed]
There are tons of "theoretical" arguments for why functional programming is a Good idea (too many for that to have stayed as an open question, and correctly so). However, most of them are arguments ...
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Go-like interfaces + multi-methods make sense?
Thinking about the design of a potential new language, I wonder how related are the concepts of built a OO similar to GO interfaces and multi-methods (I get this from http://docs.julialang.org/en/...
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Is there a correlation between the scale of the project and the strictness of the language?
Explaining the difference between strictness of languages and paradigms to a colleague of mine, I ended up asserting that: Tolerant languages, such as dynamic and interpreted languages, are used best ...
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Choosing the right language for the job
I'm currently working for a company on the engineering team of about 5-6 people and have been given the job of heading up the redesign of an embedded system tester. We've decided the general ...
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Why do people consider Python a weak language? [closed]
I've been using Python for a little while now and I am enjoying it, but a few of my friends are telling me to start using a language like C# or Java instead and give these reasons: Python is a ...
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parallel computing list of objects
I have a list of objects that all require the exact same filtering, basically a set of conditionals in a function which outputs if the object is "good" or "bad". I want to keep all of my "good" ...
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Why do operating systems do low level stuff in C and C++? Why not just C++?
On the Wikipedia page for Windows, it states the Windows is written in Assembly for the bootloader and task switcher, and C and C++ for kernel routines. IIRC, you can call C++ functions from an ...
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