On 22/01/2014 2:39 AM, John McKown wrote:
This is a curiosity question. I am wondering how resistant shops are to even having the Java JDK installed on their system. Not in being resistant to writing application code in Java, but just to having it available. In particular, are there many shops who would reject a useful product because it was written in Java versus in C, C++, or some other language? The only reason that I can think of that they would reject Java is due to the "high CPU" needed versus C or whatever. I would _assume_ that a shop with a zAAP (or zIIP for zAAP on zIIP) would not be resistant, and maybe even glad, to have Java because it could offload work from the general CPs onto the "full speed" zIIP or zAAP processor.
Of course, if you don't have a zIIP you wouldn't go near it with a ten foot barge pole.
I've never been of fan of Java the language. IMO, C# was Java done properly. The JVM is another matter. The original designers of Java got it right separating the language from the runtime. It means I have the choice of lots of much nicer languages like Javascript, Jython, JRuby, Groovy, Clojure and my particular favorite Scala.
Or am I wander about in a daze again?
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