On Oct 5, 11:52 am, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
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