Darren New wrote:
Hey, you asked. If I say "I disagree with you", it's not a logical
answer to say "You're wrong because you disagree with me." Nor is it
logical to say "That's not an example because I don't personally do that."
"My experience disagrees with yours" is quite a fine logical argument.
And, I'm going to ask which studios you are referring to. All of the
studios I have contact with are *very* Linux-centric and are moving
toward Python in a lot of areas. However, my contact tends to be with
studios that do animation or high-end special effects, so I may have a
selection bias.
I'm willing to be proven incorrect.
And if you want your program to be sophisticated and well-integrated
with the OS, it's not going to be particularly portable either.
How can you make such blanket statements when you have obvious
counterexamples?
Heard of Apache? Maybe Firefox and Thunderbird? Maybe you don't like
C/C++--how about Azureus (the all-singing, all-dancing Java Bittorrent
client)?
I imagine all those advertising agencies that use Macintosh computers
and Adobe software to work up the ads are losers too, because Apple and
Adobe only do proprietary stuff, yes?
Lack of alternative is probably the bigger issue.
While I use GIMP (and it works very nicely, thank you), it does not have
the feature set of Photoshop. Consequently, the open version pays a
very high price compared to the proprietary versions.
How long before M$ changes something in C#/.NET such that an
upgrade is required?
Long enough that the app probably gets rewritten a couple times before
then.
Where do you work that they have time to rewrite applications? I'm
trying really hard to think of any single application I have ever worked
with that ever got "rewritten".
I have *never* seen an app of useful size get rewritten. *Ever*. It
gets upgraded; it gets extended; it gets ported. But it never gets
"rewritten".
The only counterexample I can think of is the Spice circuit simulator.
Moving from Spice2 to Spice3 it went from FORTRAN to C and was a
complete rewrite. I can't think of any other example.
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