Re: Java is Dead; Long Live Python
by lacker on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @08:58PM
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I agree the idea and the people are more important. After that which language you use is still pretty high up there!
You can have an intelligent language argument, and you can learn something even from an unintelligent one. One of the most telling things is, are there languages that you thought were reasonable that nobody even bothers chipping in to defend. Nobody jumps in to advocate C++ for a quick regex-heavy text file manipulation job, or quick webserver development. Nobody jumps in to advocate Python for mobile applications, or for massively parallel programming. Nobody jumps in to advocate Javascript for offline image processing.
Sure, usually the two sides of a language war talk past each other. You can still learn a lot from the talking points.
You can have an intelligent language argument, and you can learn something even from an unintelligent one. One of the most telling things is, are there languages that you thought were reasonable that nobody even bothers chipping in to defend. Nobody jumps in to advocate C++ for a quick regex-heavy text file manipulation job, or quick webserver development. Nobody jumps in to advocate Python for mobile applications, or for massively parallel programming. Nobody jumps in to advocate Javascript for offline image processing.
Sure, usually the two sides of a language war talk past each other. You can still learn a lot from the talking points.