Java is Dead; Long Live Python

Re: Java is Dead; Long Live Python by newt0311 on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @12:10PM (#393153)

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.

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Re: Java is Dead; Long Live Python by thomasmallen on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @12:22PM (#393173)

  <pedantism>

12% of that sentence was the word "actually." In all but the shortest sentences, it's strange to see an adverb as the most common word.

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>

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Re: Java is Dead; Long Live Python by andrewdotnich on Thursday December 11, 2008 @01:05AM (#394023)

s/pedantism/pedantry/

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Re: Java is Dead; Long Live Python by thomasmallen on Thursday December 11, 2008 @10:25AM (#394344)

It's a word, just an obsolete one: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pedantism

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