Re: Java is Dead; Long Live Python
by stcredzero on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @11:28AM
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I am going to be interviewing at a job where there are New Smalltalk Projects
If dead = in stasis, then computer languages are like popular comic book characters. They may die, but someone will eventually bring them back.
Actually, from a friend who actually specializes in COBOL: the number of lines of COBOL in production use are actually increasing due to regular maintainance.
Re: Java is Dead; Long Live Python
by thomasmallen on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @12:22PM
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<pedantism>
Edit: Thought about this more, and some people almost certainly say "like" more than any other word. (Un)surprisingly, your sentence loses little meaning if the actuallies are replaced with likes, commas optional.
</pedantism>
Re: Java is Dead; Long Live Python
by andrewdotnich on Thursday December 11, 2008 @01:05AM
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s/pedantism/pedantry/
Re: Java is Dead; Long Live Python
by thomasmallen on Thursday December 11, 2008 @10:25AM
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It's a word, just an obsolete one:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pedantism
* Current usage - how much of it is deployed.
* Growth - how much it's being used for new projects, worked on, written about, etc...
For instance, Cobol is still fairly widely deployed in some environments, but growth is probably negative, as it's being replaced by Java. Java is very widely used, and is still probably growing, although probably not as much as things like Ruby, which have grown a lot; which is easy when you start from a small base.