Re: The Revenge of the Geeks

From: Arne Vajhøj <arne_at_vajhoej.dk>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:09:18 -0500
Message-ID: <510089c4$0$286$14726298_at_news.sunsite.dk>



On 1/23/2013 12:33 AM, Kevin McMurtrie wrote:
> Yes, it is a shame that Oracle runs Java but Sun wasn't so great at it
> either. Both pushed for high cost, high complexity "enterprise edition"
> libraries that come and go like fashion but dragged their feet on
> streamlining the language itself.

But those libraries often make a real big difference on the effort to write applications while language changes often has very little impact even though they make look cute.

Arne Received on Thu Jan 24 2013 - 02:09:18 CET

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