On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
That is one possible explanation. Another is that technologies with a lot of money behind them get a lot of use. Yet another is that people are willing to try anything, especially if a perceived expert is pushing it. Or, heck, anyone that can say "it worked for me." This last is particularly inviting, just going off people's propensities to try oddball diets. Also, none of this addresses what I meant the citation to cover, which is that industries are clamoring for a modular jvm. -- 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.
