I go with more of how it makes me feel when I'm writing it. :)  I
definitely feel dead when I'm jumping through some of the hoops that
Java requires.  Especially now that I understand just how many there
are.

Similarly, I used to feel dirty deploying asp pages.

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 4:24 PM, clay <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jul 1, 2:20 pm, Jon Kiparsky <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Thinking about this, I think I'm curious to know what exactly is meant when
>> someone says a language is "dead".
>
> I'd suggest the vocabulary of growth (Scala), mature (still useful
> like XML or C), or obsolete (not practically used like Pascal)
>
> On Jul 1, 2:30 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote:
>> By definition, the presentations you see in these conferences are
>> experimental topics. At best, they can give you a sense for potential
>> momentum, or an idea of where academia and tinkerers are experimenting with.
>>
>> In my opinion, the best way to find out if a technology is healthy, niche or
>> dying is a combination of TIOBE and job boards, such as Dice, Monster,
>> LinkedIn, etc...
>
> This is exactly the opposite of what Casper said. I guess it depends
> on your purpose, whether you are exploring an intellectual interest,
> or doing something more practically focused on industry.
>
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