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Coldfusion. Name another language supported by three commercial vendors plus a fourth open source version (smithproject.org)? My goal is simple - rapid application development.


"Name another language supported by three commercial vendors plus a fourth open source version."

I'm sure you could say the same about C++ and Java, and probably a bunch of other languages. But that doesn't really say much about the language itself, only who uses it.


Not to mention Lisp, which has no fewer than 8 commercial and 10 open source implementations listed here:

http://wiki.alu.org/Implementation

But you are certainly right that the number of implementations is irrelevant, as long as there is either one good open source one or 2+ commercial ones.




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