Tired of Kevin's bazillion attempt to rehash the same old discussion, even after Dick asked for some rest? Chrome user?
Have no fear! This plugin will hide everything he writes: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/368812/HideKW.crx You can uninstall it from the extensions page (Window - Extensions). NB: Credit goes to Casper Bang. I merely changed a name. On Oct 5, 10:59 am, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > Given the range of alternate languages available on the Java platform, and > the quality of tooling for these, it now seems reasonable that developers > could have more freedom to choose the language they work with based on their > needs: > > e.g. > groovy for small in-house apps needed quickly > jruby for web development > scala/clojure for financial work > etc. > > By targeting the JVM, many traditional concerns over changing languages take > on far less significance; such as the need for a new infrastructure, lack of > in-house operations knowledge and integration with an existing codebase. > > With the agile and software craftsmanship movements already empowering > develops to make more decisions over process and planning (and to take > responsibility for these), does it now make sense to also put more control > over the choice of language into the hands of the people who will actually > be using it? > > Of course, there will be management concerns. It's important to be able to > hire future developers, and fragmentation could occur if multiple teams each > chose a different language. On the other hand, are these > considerations fundamentally different when choosing libraries such as > hibernate, spring, lambdaj or lombok, or when choosing testng in preference > to lombok? and is code reuse in many organisations really high enough that > you can't already claim the codebases of different projects are fragmented? > In truth, is the suffering all that great where we *already* use different > languages for parts of a system (SQL and javascript anyone...)? > > Where is the balance here? Is it really still acceptable, in this day and > age, for management to mandate that "though shalt use Java, and only Java"? > > -- > Kevin Wright > > mail / gtalk / msn : [email protected] > pulse / 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.
