Programming Languages (was Re: [rescue] Solaris on a PPC)

Thu Feb 6 18:09:48 CST 2003

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:07:29PM -0500, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com> writes ...

> 
> > On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 05:52 PM, Frank Van Damme wrote:

> Sometimes the suits decide.  Either they want to be able to advertise that
> it is "written in <foo> for <bar>" or they read something in Business Week
> about it.  Why else does an excressence like Sun's HotJava exist?

This is amply demonstrated in the case of ArsDigita.

They were using TCL as a scripting language and AOLserver which is (despite its name) a pretty rocking multithreaded web server.

They had a profitable business.

Then the suits decided they wanted it, but in Java.

They never shipped a usable Java version, and halted production on
their TCL version.

Guess what happened?

--Patrick