I don't know what financial experience you have had but I can tell you the only two remaing 'investment' banks have far more bizarre ideas on what languages to use, or indeed invent. Java is a God send in this domain
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:59 PM, 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- 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.
