From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-07-10T02:59:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby over Python?



Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
> I haven't met anyone working for a large or reasonably-large company
> who is thinking of mandating anything but Java. Python is generally
> considered highly suspect and Ruby isn't on the radar at all. Ajax is
> seen
> by many as a dangerous and subversive practice that must not be
> allowed to
> take root. If you have examples to the contrary, I'd be really
> interested to
> hear them.
Well, I rather suspect .NET has reached the point that it's
"mandatable", like all other Microsoft products. On the other hand, the
whole point of Java is, or at least was, to be server and desktop
platform independent. Whether it's worked out that way is a question I
can't answer.
> If you follow the framework debates in the Java world, they've been
> talking
> for months now about how heavyweight frameworks (which are still being
> invented every other day, it seems) may be dying because of Ajax (read,
> because of Rails). This obviously scares the hell out of people who have
> invested heavily in Struts, Faces, and similar stuff.
Has anyone really determined once and for all whether the dinosaurs died
out because they were too large for their environment or because a huge
hunk of rock hit the Yucutan Peninsula? :)

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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

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