You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way

Re:You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way by medearis on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @08:47PM (#424322)

True, attracting users and traffic may not be easy and seems to be the fail point for many ideas, but why not consider scaling issues as well? With products like EC2, ruby on rails etc. its easier to plan for the "techcrunch" scenario than ever, so why build your site in fortran on a computer you bought at goodwill? In other words, once you get past the prototype stage, I think it might be worth it to take the extra 5 minutes to do a little research.

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Re:You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way by timf on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @08:51PM (#424325)

I agree with your sentiment as long as scaling is not a blind obesession.

But don't say Fortran as if it's slow, Fortran is still one of the predominant HPC languages :-)

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Re:You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way by LogicHoleFlaw on Thursday January 08, 2009 @12:55PM (#425277)

Cue the hoary joke from the 70s:

Q: What will the High Performance Computing language of the 1980's be?

A: I don't know, but it will be called Fortran

That was one of my dad's favorites :)

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Re:You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way by kragen on Thursday January 08, 2009 @08:50PM (#426023)

I'm almost inspired to build a web site in Fortran.

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Re:You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way by fuzzyman on Thursday January 08, 2009 @08:21AM (#424849)

And in terms of scaling Ruby is likely to be the cause of your problems rather than the solution...

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