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Re:Why the Best Doesn't Always Win (1996) by watwut on Monday July 31, 2017 @03:10PM (#14895014)
Nevertheless, perl is pretty much not used anymore, except for small scripts. Java still happily lives on server and inside larger projects, where the hell I would not wanted to use something like perl.
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Re:Why the Best Doesn't Always Win (1996) by pmoriarty on Monday July 31, 2017 @03:24PM (#14895123)
I wasn't talking about now. I was replying to api's assertion that "Java was slow and immature in the 90s but it was a huge step up from PHP, Perl...".

So that's about how Java was back then, and whether it was a "huge step up" from Perl. It wasn't.

Yes, Java improved greatly over time, and yes it's more popular now. Whether its current popularity is deserved or not is debatable, and a separate issue.

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