Another explanation is Darwin. While working at Amazon I noticed there were multiple teams working on the same problem. One would come up with the best solution and survive. The rest were disbanded and the team members had to find other teams to join.
It's not frugal by any means. And can seem wasteful. But it sure got some great solutions. A single team wouldn't have the competition to drive it. And the company would be placing its bets on that one team succeeding instead of 3 or 4. So Google may be doing the same thing hoping that one of them succeeds. Sometimes the only way to know that is to get it out into the public and see what sticks. At Amazon almost everything is for internal use so they decide and disband the rest. At Google, many things are for external use as well as internal so we are probably seeing more of this. On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 11:49 -0500, Josh Berry wrote: > [ . . . ] > > Though, I have felt some fatigue at the number of languages coming out > > of Google. Seems that they stay willfully ignorant of what others are > > working on at times. (The dart folks had never heard of coffeescript, > > for example.) > > On interpretation might be that Google is so big and has so little > management reporting that works, that until the languages are announced > no-one in Google other than the development team knows about the work. > > Another interpretation might be that Google is so afraid of all the > software patents lined up against it, that it protects itself by > requiring all language designers to not study the current languages > being developed in case they violate a patent and end up in court. > > -- > Russel. > > ============================================================================= > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: > sip:[email protected] > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder > -- Robert Casto www.robertcasto.com www.sellerstoolbox.com -- 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.
