I would that Java is more in his mid forties, so Java buy yourself a fancy car (Scala ?), start to play the Guitar in a band (JavaFX ? :) ), and probably work a little bit less... !
On 31 August 2010 11:30, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > Java is not dead. > > Like all good parents, it has sat and patiently raised its children, and > they are now adults themselves. > and also, like most parents with grown-up children, it's reached retirement > age. > > So, Java, we salute you, and all you have done in raising > a successful family. > Be proud of your achievements... > and get out there on that golf course to enjoy a less stressful existence > for the remainder of your years! > > > On 31 August 2010 10:22, Romain Pelisse <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think that Java is already dead, we simply don't care about it :) >> >> I mean the last "dead technology" was C or C++ - people are still using >> those, the previous one was probably Cobol, still a lot of people using >> those and there is even backport of tools such as JUnit for Cobol ! >> >> Java has been there for so long that it is not going to disappear like >> Forte 4GL did overnight (but you might people using Forte, so even on this I >> maybe wrong). Perhaps we have reached a peak and Java will go slowly down, >> perhaps not. But Java is dead statement are plain nonsense. >> >> I think Java is getting older, that for sure. Java is no longer the >> language of choice for crazy new idea or new project. The slow adoption of >> Git/Mercurial in the Java world is a good hint to that (I think). late 2008 >> and early 2009 most of major non Java related Open Souce moved to Git or >> Mercurial. This shift happened one year later in the Java world. >> >> Java is like an old person, he doesn't run as he did in his youth, but he >> is far from being dead... >> >> On 31 August 2010 10:27, Fabrizio Giudici >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> I've first heard that statement around 2001/2002. It was the first >>> time I started hearing that Java was dead, and at the time I got >>> seriously worried as I focused on Java since the inception of my >>> career - at the time, Java was six years old and it was not surprising >>> for a technology of that age to have reached its peak. I seriously >>> started looking around to discover what could have been the "next >>> thing" so I wasn't trapped into a dead end. Then I learned that it was >>> just nonsense and I stopped worrying. Of course, Java will eventually >>> die and I have to be careful not to be trapped into a dead end, but I >>> understood that those statements are not the proper canary in the coal >>> mine. >>> >>> - -- >>> 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/ >>> >>> iEYEARECAAYFAkx8vPsACgkQeDweFqgUGxcWhgCfVGXxijXEnc47FGmlHj3+7oxS >>> hlMAniJV5OzoHX2r2aK6x78T4RscTsWL >>> =lJR0 >>> -----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]<javaposse%[email protected]> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Romain PELISSE, >> "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will >> insist on coming along and trying to put things in it" -- Terry Pratchett >> http://belaran.eu/ >> >> -- >> 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- Romain PELISSE, "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it" -- Terry Pratchett http://belaran.eu/ -- 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.
