On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Jon Kiparsky <[email protected]>wrote:
> If you think the answer is anything but "utter failure", walk around your > office and count the Dvorak keyboards. > Have you ever tried writing code with a Dvorak keyboard? It's an absolute nightmare. No wonder Dvorak never made much inroads in the developer community, it's far, far worse than a Qwerty keyboard. > Instead they innovated on making it a safe language for production systems I think there's some revisionism lurking in that statement. Java didn't become used in "production" systems for at least five years after it emerged. Java was initially targeted at embedded systems and during its first years, Java's killer app was applets. Having said that, I certainly agree that the main reason for its success was because it was a gentler, easier to program C++ and that most C++ developers hated their life (I was one of those). -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "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.
