Hi,
On 3 Feb 2006, at 09:59, S.Hayles wrote:
> Not wanting to start a big Friday argument,
... he says, liberally splashing around the petrol and flicking
matches left and right ...
> but articles such as the following are starting to appear:
>
> Java? It's So Nineties
> http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2005/
> tc20051213_042973.htm
Perhaps the real story here is not "the decline of Java" but the fact
that corporations are more willing these days to accept heterogeneous
technologies to build infrastructure and services - the right tool
for the job, rather than the institutionally-prescribed tool
regardless of fitness for purpose. Sometimes a lightweight scripting
solution is absolutely the right way to go.
> I have used Java (C and PERL too) and now mainly use Python.
Python? That's *so* last week. Ruby on Rails is the language/
framework du jour. And brown is the new black, and worse is better,
etc etc.
Java's not going anywhere any time soon. I remember similar "C is
dead, long live C++!" and "C++ is dead, long live Java!" stories in
the press. If we believed everything in print ...
Cheers,
Andrew.
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