Programming Languages

[moetheman]

Originally Posted by EricP

By accessing the CLR, one language can basically do everything the others can...so its just a matter of preference.

That's not accurate, while it can be said that all Turing Complete languages are equivalent, they are most definitely not so, as some languages do not support certain programming paradigms properly (OOP is neither the only nor the best, by far) and expressiveness and succinctness are not equal across all languages.

The CLR RESTRICTS what you can do more than it empowers you. That's from experience.

Try Lisp/Haskell/Erlang without an IDE, on a Unix/Linux/*BSD machine, and you will see what I am talking about.

As far as Web Applications, try Python + Django/TurboGears. Those, in the right hands, are unbeatable by anything M$FT has done, does, or will ever do.