Programming - Language or Purpose!?
Wednesday, 17. May 2006, 01:07:52
As we move towards the area of computers, technology, internet and other related areas, we start to wonder where it all came from, and how everything works.
Well...
At the end of the day, all of this was and is programmed using languages, which is understood by digital devices and parsed as binary and hexidecimal code.
My question is :
There are so many different programming languages available, which could all more or less serve the same purpose. They all aim more or less at the same goal, and many of them can be used to accomplish the same task.
I am a PHP and MySQL web developer and designer. I create websites, scripts and other internet back end systems. Not only do I use PHP for online/remote communication, but if I really wanted to, I could build full desktop/offline applications which could run through a browser and store data in a MySQL database.
I guess it's quite logical that these different platforms, programming languages and back end systems were created and developed by different companies. I see it this way : Intel and AMD are both digital electronic devices developing companies, mainly known for the CPU's they develop. They both serve the same purpose....which is to make a PC run, but which is better?
Think about it. Let me know what you think.
Thanks.
Best,
Contrid.
Well...
At the end of the day, all of this was and is programmed using languages, which is understood by digital devices and parsed as binary and hexidecimal code.
My question is :
There are so many different programming languages available, which could all more or less serve the same purpose. They all aim more or less at the same goal, and many of them can be used to accomplish the same task.
I am a PHP and MySQL web developer and designer. I create websites, scripts and other internet back end systems. Not only do I use PHP for online/remote communication, but if I really wanted to, I could build full desktop/offline applications which could run through a browser and store data in a MySQL database.
I guess it's quite logical that these different platforms, programming languages and back end systems were created and developed by different companies. I see it this way : Intel and AMD are both digital electronic devices developing companies, mainly known for the CPU's they develop. They both serve the same purpose....which is to make a PC run, but which is better?
Think about it. Let me know what you think.
Thanks.
Best,
Contrid.
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