For those that remember far enough back, you will have *cough* fond
memories of Al Dev ... he seems to have resurfaced, and I figured that
this "enlightened posting" might be a nice end to a week for some :)
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Al_Dev wrote:
> Since PostgreSQL, MySQL is written in "C", there is a migration away
> from "C" to its successor "D" language. So, there should be plan to
> make migration from "C" to "D" in near future. It can be gradual as
> "D" can link together "C" objects. So the future version of
> PostgreSQL like PostgreSQL Version 12 will be written in 100% D
> language.
>
> You would be interested in looking at this 'Language shootout Page'.
> After 30 years of C and C++ now the D language is superceding the
> C/C++. "C" language evolved from "B" language and B from A. The
> process of evolution is A->B->C->D and after 30 years there may be
> "E" language which will supercede "D".
>
> The D-language is the "top number one" in ranking getting about 135
> points(with weightage of 1 each to cpu, mem, codelines). The next in
> the list is OCML from France (http://caml.inria.fr ).
> The D-language is still evoling and guess is it will be GA and in
> production in about a year's time.
>
> The currently OCML is declared as a "Super Power of Computer
> Languages". The OCML is GA and is in production deployment in many
> big companies like "France Telecom", AirBus Industry, Boeing Corp,
> many mega-large companies in Europe, Japan, USA and China.
>
> Computer language is the backbone of the world economy!! Computer
> language is multi-billion dollar market.
>
> I will be surprised if you had not already visited this site.
>
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/great/benchmark.php?test=all〈=all&sort=fullcpu
> (You can change weightage of cpu, memory, codelines)
>
> http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GreatComputerLanguageShootout
>
> Win32 language shootouts - http://dada.perl.it/shootout/
>
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
>
> The D-language is at http://www.digitalmars.com/d/index.html
>
> The next in the list is OCML http://caml.inria.fr
>
> See also pure object oriented Ruby which is fast replacing perl
> http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
>
> Al Dev ( Alavoor Vasudevan)
>
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