Re:James Gosling, the ‘Father of Java,’ joins Amazon Web Ser...
by hyperpallium on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @12:49PM
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Java is C++ without the broken glass
It's hard to look at a historical success, and determine which attributes caused that success. I agree that the non-product attributes (tooling, docs, libraries, corporate backing etc) were important. Elsewhere you describe it as "moderately-usable", and I think that implies the key: to compare it with the alternatives, such as C++ and COBOL. That's how market success comes about.
It's similar with google: was it "the algorithm"? Or was it honest results, uncluttered, fast?
It's hard to look at a historical success, and determine which attributes caused that success. I agree that the non-product attributes (tooling, docs, libraries, corporate backing etc) were important. Elsewhere you describe it as "moderately-usable", and I think that implies the key: to compare it with the alternatives, such as C++ and COBOL. That's how market success comes about.
It's similar with google: was it "the algorithm"? Or was it honest results, uncluttered, fast?