Software eats software development

Re:Software eats software development by mappu on Monday April 14, 2014 @03:05AM (#7584877)

> The pejorative "scripting language" was a term that Sun pushed really hard a while ago to separate them from "real" languages (i.e. Java) that you would trust your company to.

Fascinating. I do believe this without hesitation, but for the sake of sharing this in other social circles, is it the sort of claim that's possible to find a citation for?

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Re:Software eats software development by rurounijones on Monday April 14, 2014 @03:28AM (#7584922)

As soon as I wrote it I have tried to find a source I can link to but my google-fu is failing me.

I will keep looking. It may have been Oracle rather than Sun.

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Re:Software eats software development by aethertron on Monday April 14, 2014 @06:55AM (#7585448)

Here's this from Oracle (I think), might be relevant:

http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/java_javascript.xml

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Re:Software eats software development by rurounijones on Monday April 14, 2014 @11:21AM (#7586647)

I remember reading about it in an article where they got their hands on a "guideline document" for an expo (One of the big Java ones) for Sun/Oracle people.

In it it basically talked about the need for constant low-level differentiation and playing-down of scripting languages.

The link you posted above is the kind of thing this encouraged. Don't be actively hostile but more "Oh, a scripting language? How cute"

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Re:Software eats software development by _random_ on Monday April 14, 2014 @02:10PM (#7587797)

Sounds reasonable but a bit outdated. Then again who would've guessed that historical ubiquity of JS scripting language would eventually put it on server side?

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