Oh man how soon the lessons of history are forgotten. In the shops I was in the mantra was, Smalltalk servers, Java front ends and who in their right mind would use C++ for any of this. I guess we all now know how that worked out ;-)
On 2012-06-24, at 8:15 AM, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: > 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. -- 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.
