It's the early adopters who develop the first libraries that pull in
ever wider audiences. Yes, the early adopters are drawn by the syntax
of the language, but commercial adoption doesn't come until it's
economically competitive to do so. And that doesn't happen until the
library market is booming and/or they can seamlessly reuse existing
assets (that's what the JVM languages discovered: if you allow people
to use what they already have, in a seamless fashion, incrementally
building new stuff using the new language, then you can dramatically
shorten the time between early adoption and mass adoption).
Regards,
John A. De Goes
N-Brain, Inc.
The Evolution of Collaboration
http://www.n-brain.net | 877-376-2724 x 101
On Sep 28, 2009, at 11:01 AM, Jason Dusek wrote:
2009/09/28 John A. De Goes <j...@n-brain.net>:
Libraries are _everything_...
Not exactly. Python would never have gotten a foothold over
Perl, nor Java over C, if cleaner language semantics weren't
enough for some shops or certain applications.
--
Jason Dusek
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