On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 14:32, Blanford <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, Java has been a great success.
Indeed. And while many other think that Java has come into age, I think it gains importance. My experience about 6 years ago or so was 100% Windows, now it is only 90% (if we believe the stats). IMHO, platform independence is getting more important. And many took Java as an example (.NET is a bad clone IMHO even if many think that MS improved it - my experience is that MS usually make things worse than better ;-) ). > For years I thought Python PHP Ruby PHP Perl would eventually render > Java irrelevant. > They are easy to use and flexible. Plus in the age of the web Java's > cross platform advantage does not help much. Thick clients can still make a lot of sense. Guess, why are even Twitter clients developed? > Lets face it, scripting technology is easier and very robust, but is > it too eratic to compete in the long run? I did a lot of scripting and what I always missed was the tooling - the IDE, debugger and compiler telling me about errors even before trying it the first time. Testing consumes a lot of time. -- Martin Wildam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
