-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/1/10 14:56 , Viktor Klang wrote:
>> Intel and GloFo spend billions of dollars in developing new >> factories to produce smaller transistors. Then they spend less >> money to refine the process, then they build newer factories that >> can produce smaller transistors. Sometimes it's worth investing 4 >> months into tech (Scala) that will be more beneficient for you in >> the long run. There's a repeating error in this kind of discussions, that is the personal perspective. That is, the subject is always "I, the developer". I stressed the fact that the perspective in my previous post was the one of the employer (or project manager, or whatever). To try to be clear, let me just play with the roles: Victor is the developer, I am the employer / project manager and Victor currently works for me. Let's now assume that Victor is right, that is he saturated his potential with Java and he only can improve with Scala. So, for his own advantage, he's right in moving to Scala. Now, I can't be sure that Victor will always work for me. If at a certain point he decides to leave, he'll carry with him his Scala skills and he'll be able to spend them wherever he likes. Instead, I'm left alone. Victor is sure that what's planning for himself in a medium/long perspective can be achieved (unless he wins the Bingo and retires); I can't because a perspective of one year might be jeopardized by the fact that Victor might be leaving me earlier. So, the better solution for _him_ is not the better solution for _me_. It's not reasonable to discuss the possible success of a programming technology in the industry from the developer perspective, since developers aren't the one who make decisions. Intel example is not relevant, in my opinion. It's a huge-scale enterprise that perfectly knows how relevant is R&D for the evolution of the business, and of course it spends a lot in R&D. This is not precisely the same perspective of a huge number of medium and small software corporates - not to say that when we talk about IT departments in corporates whose core business is different we should recall that the IT budget is typically anemic and doesn't allow for much fantasy. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxVc3sACgkQeDweFqgUGxcXjgCaArBK5jAXK43Ki7u9WU3KhySL H1sAn3L2p8CwUoSiGOtfIcSMufAusZrJ =ToDk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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.
