On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 08:17:47 +0000 Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 17 December 2014 at 22:24:09 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote: > > On Wednesday, 17 December 2014 at 17:09:34 UTC, Andrei > > Alexandrescu wrote: > >> On 12/4/14 6:39 PM, deadalnix wrote: > >>> On Thursday, 4 December 2014 at 13:48:04 UTC, Russel Winder > >>> via > >>> Digitalmars-d wrote: > >>>> It's an argument for Java over Python specifically but a bit > >>>> more > >>>> general in reality. This stood out for me: > >>>> > >>>> !…other languages like D and Go are too new to bet my work > >>>> on." > >>>> > >>>> http://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/java-for-everything.html > >>> > >>> Also relevant: > >>> http://wiki.jetbrains.net/intellij/Developing_and_running_a_Java_EE_Hello_World_application > >> > >> Very interesting. Even after all IDE details are factored out, > >> the code is quite convoluted. No wonder Ruby on Rails and > >> friends are so attractive by comparison. -- Andrei > > > > Hah. I tried RoR once. I couldn't get the environment set up > > and running and eventually just gave up. > > > After learning what RoR was about, I lost my interest. > > I had been there once back in the early .COM days in a startup > that did, lets call it, TCL on Rails. It was inspired by > AOLserver for those who remember it. > > Eventually scaling problems made us consider other options, then > since we were in a position to have access to early versions of > .NET, the decision was made to adopt it. > > Almost everything that RoR 1.0 was doing, our TCL framework did > as well. Specially the whole ActiveRecord thing. > > We just weren't famous. no, you just didn't chose the language that alot of hipsters like. p.s. Tcl is nice. it's LISP told without brackets. ;-)
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