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Discussion on: why are there so many programming languages when they all do the same thing?

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pentacular

While most languages can do most things, they do them differently, resulting in different costs -- it can be cheaper to do X in Y.

We can cross-compile our code to different platforms -- this is what cross-compilers do.

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Brunner

Thanks for you feedback @pentacular

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pentacular

You're welcome. :)