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"Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk>
Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:24:22 +0000

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From: "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:24:22 +0000
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References: 12-03-019
Keywords: design, history, comment
Posted-Date: 09 Mar 2012 23:28:26 EST

John,


> [I'm not sure a software monoculture is an innovation, much less
> an interesting one. IBM faced antitrust suits in the 1960s and 70s


A language monoculture has benefits.


Greater people portability for one.


Fewer compilers needed (ok, this group's readers don't consider that a
benefit :-)


Everybody doing things the same way can also reduce faults.
The following experiment found a correlation between
percentage source code occurrences and developer knowledge
of binary operator precedence.
http://www.knosof.co.uk/dev-experiment/accu06.html


> in both the US and Europe because their mainframes and OS/360 were
> so dominant. And as far as who copies Fortran syntax, every time
> you write a=b+c or if(a>b)c=d, or function foo(x,y), you're
> writing in Fortran. -John]


R copied Fortran syntax. But that has been around for a while.
[R? -John]

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