On 20 July 2012 13:06, Josh Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> > wrote: > > That's an old article. Scala's now on 2.9.2 and soon to be 2.10, binary > > compatibility is being taken very seriously. > > My point was that any company that was practicing the fearless > programming you were describing would make those concerns a breath of > fresh air. > > > > Trust me, the industry *do* care. All except for those parts of it who > see > > IT as an unfortunate cost centre, and wish it could just have been locked > > permanently at COBOL so they'd avoid all those awkward programmer > salaries. > > I'm hoping that the vast majority of people on this list appreciate the > > futility of such an attitude. > > Find me any evidence of this outside of the OSGi camp. Because I just > don't see it. I keep getting the feeling that I'm told I should care > about it, but no compelling reasons why. So... Citations needed. > > Just look at long-term trends of book sales and job availability for various programming languages. Java rose from nothing, and COBOL usage continues to fall. This simply wouldn't be the case if people didn't care about upgrading, improving, and modernising their systems to take advantage of new paradigms and techniques.
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