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E Programming Language: Write Secure Distributed Software

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Re: E Programming Language: Write Secure Distributed Software

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Post by cbsmith »

hellofunk wrote: post #2

C and C++ are both powerful languages but D brings some new things to the table. Then there's E, innovative yes, but why use E when we have F, or better, F#? Personally, I've used G for a couple years now but I am betting the future on the H language. Some people are already skipping ahead to using K, but the guys I'm most scared by are those who only use R.

You forgot about J...

Re: E Programming Language: Write Secure Distributed Software

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Post by evgen »

0xCMP wrote: post #15

Oh wow, I was just reading about this yesterday in Coders At Work[0]. Douglas Crockford[1] worked on this at a company that was trying to do some distributing computing work in the 90s-00s. They originally based it off the JVM but SUN had issues with that so they turned it more in to what he described as a scripting language "which is what we have today." [0]: http://www.amazon.com/Coders-Work-Reflections-Craft-Progr…

So in the beginning Electric Communities was going to do large-scale, distributed virtual worlds (think MMORPGs as shopping malls...) with real security. The original plan was to use Joule, but negotiations didn't work out and while waiting around a couple of engineers created a reasonable subset in this new language called java. This subset eventaully because the original E language. Crock was the slides and presentations guy of the core team, so after knowing him for a while as mostaly a non-coder it was odd to see him pop up again and have such a big impact on the javascript world.
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