RE: from lightweight languages to heavyweights

I formerly worked at an investment bank, and, as part of preparation for
Y2K, several TCL-based applications were being converted to C++ or Java.

The reason given for switching from a 'lightweight' language like TCL
was that they no longer had TCL programmers around but the had plenty of
C++ and Java programmers.  It had nothing to do with language features
or capabilities, just the economics of staffing.

Steven 

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Subject: [ll-discuss] from lightweight languages to heavyweights 

Paul Graham has mentioned a few times that Yahoo rewrote his ViaWeb code
from lightweight languages (let's admit CL for the sake of the argument
with the LL camp, a lot of code was a in a "true" lightweight
language) to C++. We can speculate why they did this, whether it was
good or bad. I am not interested in any of this.

My question is: do any of you know of other examples of rewriting
successful applications from a lightweight language into a heavyweight
language? I would be interested to know a few. Descriptive answers are
preferred over opinions.

-- Matthias