polgot programming.. well who knows wft that is.... but I do see more people using more langauges on the JVM.
Kirk On 2012-01-21, at 5:21 PM, Alex Turner wrote: > I have rarely worked somewhere where enough folks on the team had overlap in > more than the core skill set. Ancillary tools are always handy, but they end > up being just that. They are mostly esoteric and limited in understanding to > the one person that created them. This is a great pity, but it just seems > like that's the way it goes. > > For every little script and subsystem in another language, it's yet another > build or script that has to be understood in order to use it for the rest of > a team, and ultimately they either never get used or simply just slow the > team down. This seems to go double the more 'brilliant' the polyglot is. > They'll create this amazing script, and it's so amazing that only a high > skill programmer in whatever specific language could figure out how it > works. Somehow this is a badge of honor to some, but it seems like it should > be a badge of shame when you create things no-one else can work with. > > Also, the fewer the languages, the easier it becomes to be expert at them. > > Alex > > On Jan 21, 2012, at 5:31 AM, Moandji Ezana wrote: > >> In 2006, when Neal Ford coined or popularised the term polyglot programming, >> it seemed to gain some popularity. >> >> However, in the past few years, the trend seems to have gone towards using >> as few languages as possible. >> >> In Java you could use GWT or Android on the client and Hibernate on the >> server and not see either JavaScript or SQL. >> >> With Node.js, JavaScript becomes the common language. Fantom and Clojure >> (via ClojureScript) can also compile to JavaScript. >> >> Was polyglottism ever a good way to build an application? Is this just a >> pendulum swing or rather the result of more powerful tools? >> >> Moandji >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
