You're right about there not being a golden hammer language, but with LLVM I think we're perhaps getting close to having a golden hammer platform... (for a given definition of "platform")
So it ain't all doom&gloom! On 16 June 2010 12:05, Carl Jokl <[email protected]> wrote: > I wish VB would die. > > If the job advertisements are anything to go by in the UK there still > seem to be quite a few posts going for VB .Net developers. Perhaps you > mean classic VB. Office still uses VBA and didn't move that to > VB .Net. > It VB stuck to being used for what it was designed for then i.e. a COM > scripting language it was fine for that but things got ugly when > people decided to try and build enterprise grade applications in VB > which the language was never designed for. The whole situation with > JavaScript reminds me of this too. JavaScript was just supposed to be > a glue language for the browser and yet people are pushing it to try > and do more complex heavy lifting which it was never designed to do. > > There is no golden hammer programming language. The more I sample > different languages and platforms the more clear it is that they all > have strengths and weaknesses. I wish I could dismiss .Net as being > really bad but some of it is quite well though out. The down side > tends to be the political baggage that goes with the platform rather > than the technology being really bad. I don't hate C/C++ and maybe the > geeky side of me enjoys doing some low level stuff now and > again but when I consider how long it would take to build an > application of any given size and complexity in C/C++ it is a slow > going language to develop in. Sometimes there is no choice but to go > native to solve some problems. > > Much as I am not as enthusiastic about Java as I once was that hasn't > seemed to push me toward another platform. It is the community that > makes me want to stay with Java. I underestimated how valuable/good > the Java community is until I lost it. > > -- > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Kevin Wright mail/google talk: [email protected] wave: [email protected] skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- 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.
