:omg: I have to check that out. I haven't actually seen it in action. That would be interesting to see.

Although I haven't been in it for as long as others, believe me GWBasic and c were as different as they could get too.. then theres Fortran, Pascal, Assembly, and the list goes on... :laugh:

For an site that takes a guess at the latest language trends and tries to "statistically" show a language's adoption go to TIOBE Programming Community Index[^] :-D

Agreed. If there was a single language that answered every problem, perhaps there wouldn't be a need for newer ones, but as new things are discovered/created/invented, there are things that languages have to do that weren't there before and that they were created for. :)

I agree with that. Software development is about creating a solution to something a client needs help with. The huge stack of languages is nothing more than a variety of tools meant to do this. That one language is better than another under certain circumstances is always going to happen. That the best one may involve many languages/pieces is highly likely. One size fits all is just not applicable in technology. Think of the number of cell phones or computers that are discarded extremely fast and you will realize the pace of change That people come up with very specific lanuguages addressing very narrow issues is a testament to people and their persistence in trying to find better solutions (even if no tool exists). Sure Microsoft hypes it all up as do others, but my enjoyment of software does not come from being able to perfectly master a language but in being able to cleanly and elegantly create a solution to a complex issue, and then have it as maintainable as possible. I really find it exciting to find a way to do something that was extremely difficult and error prone one way, be simple and natural in another language. I don't chase fads and do take a late to the party approach (Who has Windows XP SP3 yet?), but I sure do like to know what is hot so that I can watch it. I also like to know enough about the language (Perhaps not actually learning the language yet sometimes) to tell if it will help me when I encounter a client situation that the language was designed for. The Pragmatic Programmer (Andrew Hunt & David Thomas - Addison Wesley) is an awesome read for anyone in this field. :)