** Reply to message from "Paul G. Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 02 May 2008 01:28:16 -0700
> I've never understood the "It's newer so I have to use it." crowd. there's a big difference between the linear programming crowd and those who were brought up with some understanding that object oriented is "new". Lan touched on the OO bit some and makes me wonder how much isn't related to this. We know C++ brought OOP to the masses in the late 80s but was quickly squelched with MS C-- and their attack on the C++ frameworks market. Java in the mid/late 90s brought OOP back and it's become a standard part of most university CS curriculum. Smalltalk almost broke out around 1996 but Java took its thunder and got the mindshare. So anything which doesn't have much OO built into it is going to get the "it's older" cold shoulder from the n00b's out of school in the last 10 years and those using different languages because of a job or client choice. just my take on this "it's new" / "it's old" language thang. Doug -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
