OT: 'conduct unbecoming of a hacker'

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 10:21:19 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> You heard them above. Sun is basically inbreeding. That tends 
> to be good
> to bring out specific characteristics of a breed, and tends to 
> be good for
> _specialization_.

Linus is not a very good analyst. All the big iron corporations 
had transition problems: Cray, SGI, IBM, Sun and many more.

It would be very difficult to take the expertise SUN had and 
rapidly turn SUN into a competitive force in a different field.

Of course, none of this is relevant to programming languages. 
Perl died because Python was better. Not because the niches 
changed. C++11 is replacing C/C++98 for newer projects that need 
performance. Better hardware means the niche has shrunk, but it 
will remain a significant niche.