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[Bent Rasmussen]

No doubt about it. The point was that some of us are donkeys, chasing 
carrots. ;-)
- which has little to do with mainstream penetration

- Bent

"Lars Ivar Igesund" <larsivar at igesund.net> skrev i meddelelsen 
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> Bent Rasmussen wrote:
>
>> That future of is like the lambda in front of the language enthusiast' -
>> Sorry, it's like the carrot in front of the donkey. Always out of reach
>> for the masses.
>>
>> Of course C# is the present - in a major way - and probably the future,
>> for the forseeable future. Then there's F#, easy on the eyes and with 
>> some
>> potential. There's Scala, it's hybrid, coherent and highly expressive
>> language but somehow doesn't look like a mainstream proposition.
>>
>> No point going further down the list.
>
> Well, the point is that I have yet to see any large projects in either of
> those languages (they exist, they're just not everywhere). In Java 
> however,
> I hear of large new projects every day. I know that there may be
> geographical differences, but from this hill it looks like companies that
> build and sell their own software choose whichever language/platform that
> suits them (and if Windows centric that often is C#), whereas the typical,
> largish consultant contracts opt for Java.
>
> Statements of what is the future, altogether forget that deployed software
> control a large portion of any future, such as the shortage of COBOL
> programmers have shown. New, niche languages isn't the future just because
> they get a lot of attention in the blogosphere. Most programmers seems to
> be rather unaware of most stuff discussed there.
>
> -- 
> Lars Ivar Igesund
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