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eru on March 1, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why is BIND 10 written in C++ and Python?

Oh, I wasn't aware that you only talked about those. MUMPS is also not for systems programming, as far as I know.

To nitpick a bit, compiled or not is more a property of the implementation than of the language itself. Of course, some languages are more commonly compiled than others. But, don't Facebook have a PHP compiler?

pjmlp on March 1, 2013 [–]

> But, don't Facebook have a PHP compiler?

Yes, but I don't see PHP as a possible systems programming language, even with a compiled implementation.

Uhm, dreams of device drivers written in PHP...

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