On 5 December 2010 13:54, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote:
> A separate reply to Cedric's very interesting question of: Which > language would have succeeded if java hadn't. > > At first I'm fairly sure C would have kept most of the now java > programmers, but I rather doubt C would have become mainstream for web > development. Its just spectacularly badly suited to do so. I'm > guessing python would have become larger much faster than it has > today, and PHP would also have been kludged on more. But, who knows? > Maybe the scripting disdain that's lasted so long (well into the > middle 2000s) would have meant someone rolled up a garbage collected C > variant with a standard library set well-suited to building web apps. > > I'd like to dream that it might have been Haskell, but that seems unlikely... -- 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.
