Most of the successful languages of today and yesterday, made it by accident. Who would have thought a language for toasters and similar mini devices would have become the leader in Enterprise (aka Java). Look at PHP, its best described as a mess, but somehow its simplicity seemed to have won a league of followers. Most developers dont know what type inf or closures are, my guess is most people think they sound kool when they say them but dont really know what they are. Its always interesting how most discussions about languages focus on key strokes rather than something a little more concrete, eg defaults - personally i think defaults are evil everything should be explicit.
Ubiquity and success is not related to being the best. This argument has been demonstrated many times in the past - its VHS vs BETA, left hand v right hand drive cars, in both cases the inferior and unnatural (the later) case lost out -- 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.
