[dba-Tech] Facebook has been busy

Hans-Christian Andersen hans.andersen at phulse.com
Thu Mar 27 16:41:12 CDT 2014


It would seem more likely to me that the developers at Facebook looked at a broad spectrum of languages: D, Erlang, Haskell, C-languages (C/C++/C#) and Python (which is probably the biggest influence).

- Hans


On Mar 27, 2014, at 8:03 AM, Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru> wrote:

> Hi Hans --
> 
> Thank you  I know.
> 
> But check the Hack syntax. Hack and C# do share common programming language strengths AFAIS.  Actually Hack borrows *verbatim* quite a few C# language features. And C# (after its first release mainly based on Java and C/C++) borrowed quite a few language features  from VB(/NET), Python, JavaScript and Ruby. But C# borrowing was mainly conceptual not verbatim.
> 
> -- Shamil
> 
> Thu, 27 Mar 2014 02:50:16 -0700 from Hans-Christian Andersen <hans.andersen at phulse.com>:
>> PHP was originally developed as a language for the web. C# was not. So it is unlikely PHP and C# will ever share common strengths (nor should they).
>> 
>> - Hans
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 26, 2014, at 2:34 PM, Salakhetdinov Shamil < mcp2004 at mail.ru > wrote:
>> 
>>> It looks like PHP "hacked-up" to C# :)
>>> 
>>> -- Shamil
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:15:58 -0600 (MDT) from Jim Lawrence < accessd at shaw.ca >:
>>>> Facebook has released a new version of PHP called Hack. It is fully OSS.
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-hack-programming-language-2014-3
>>>> 
>>>> According to the article; Facebook's New Programming Language — Hack — Is A Dream Come True For Engineers
>>>> 
>>>> Facebook to buy Oculus virtual reality firm for $2B
>>>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/facebook-to-buy-oculus-virtual-reality-firm-for-2b-1.2586318
>>>> 
>>>> Jim
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