Timeline for Why are there so many programming languages? Why are new languages still being made?
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| Aug 20, 2012 at 16:28 | comment | added | gbjbaanb | @BryanOakley - originally .NET was intended to keep backward compatibility with VB6, but they decided it was too hard a problem. .NET still had a lot of legacy WRT Java/J++ that it was based on. I think D is an example of a language designed against legacy code. | |
| Jun 16, 2011 at 23:51 | comment | added | alternative | I don't believe that this correct. Its (usually) possible to fork an open source implementation of an existent language. | |
| Jun 16, 2011 at 23:49 | comment | added | Bryan Oakley | Is there any documented case of a language being designed to avoid legacy code? This claim seems highly unlikely. I can see the case where you want to start fresh (.net comes to mind) but it's not so much to avoid legacy code but to better enable future code. | |
| Sep 27, 2010 at 12:24 | history | answered | JeffO | CC BY-SA 2.5 |