Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:15:04 -0700, Walter Bright wrote: > retard wrote: >> I only meant that the widespead adoption of Java shows how the public >> at large cares very little about the performance issues you mentioned >> Java is one of the most widely used languages and it's also successful >> in many fields. Things could be better from programming language >> theory's point of view, but the business world is more interesting in >> profits and the large pool of Java coders has given better benefits >> than more expressive languages. I don't think that says anything >> against my notes about algebraic data types. > > > Choice of a language has numerous factors
I know that. >, so you cannot dismiss one > factor because the other factors still make it an attractive choice. I don't think I said anything that contradicts that. > For example: > > "the widespread adoption of horses shows how the public at large cares > very little about the cars you mentioned." I meant caring in a way that results in masses of programmers migrating their code from Java to a language with those performance issues solved (e.g. D). A layman can make general remarks from people switching from Java/C++/C to "new" languages such as Groovy, Javascript, Python, PHP, and Ruby. The people want "simpler" languages. For example Ruby has terrible performance, but the performance becomes a non-issue once the web service framework is built in a scalable way.
