Linked by David Adams on Tue 14th Oct 2008 03:52 UTC, submitted by estherschindler
General Development Several up-and-coming scripting languages--some open-source--are gaining popularity among software developers. These dynamic programming languages, including Groovy, Scala, Lua, F#, Clojure and Boo, deserve more attention for your enterprise software development, even if your shop is dedicated to Java or .NET. Here's why.
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renox
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Note that Scala, Boo and F# have local type inference, so this blur a little bit the difference between 'scripting' language and those language.

Of course C++200x will have local type inference, but C++ won't ever be confused with a scripting language due to its "early optimisation" focus..

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