![]() ![]() Long-time VB developers know what’s coming next. And they wanted a small database to store some configuration, and… The more I looked at it, the more it sounded like this was a problem for… (dare I admit it?) Visual Basic. ![]() It was a lot of file manipulation, writing a file here, reading a file there, copying a file to this other place and so on. But as I scoped out the project, it became apparent to me that this program didn’t cater much to C++. I was the die-hard hard-core C++ developer who prided himself on knowing the four different kinds of smart pointers, not to mention all of the Gang-of-Four design patterns and the C++ template syntax. Twenty years ago, I took a contract building a standalone desktop application for a small firm. All of it seems to surround two languages-JavaScript and Ruby-but in fact, several other languages, three of which I’ll present here, offer some distinctly interesting and useful features. ![]() Some of it is deserved, some of it isn’t. Much hoopla has been generated across the community about dynamic languages much of it is spoken in the same glowing terms normally reserved for unicorns and rainbows.
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