Have you got one for reini...@gmail.com? On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot <reini...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tired of Kevin's bazillion attempt to rehash the same old discussion, > even after Dick asked for some rest? Chrome user? > > Have no fear! This plugin will hide everything he writes: > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/368812/HideKW.crx > > You can uninstall it from the extensions page (Window - Extensions). > > NB: Credit goes to Casper Bang. I merely changed a name. > > On Oct 5, 10:59 am, Kevin Wright <kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Given the range of alternate languages available on the Java platform, and >> the quality of tooling for these, it now seems reasonable that developers >> could have more freedom to choose the language they work with based on their >> needs: >> >> e.g. >> groovy for small in-house apps needed quickly >> jruby for web development >> scala/clojure for financial work >> etc. >> >> By targeting the JVM, many traditional concerns over changing languages take >> on far less significance; such as the need for a new infrastructure, lack of >> in-house operations knowledge and integration with an existing codebase. >> >> With the agile and software craftsmanship movements already empowering >> develops to make more decisions over process and planning (and to take >> responsibility for these), does it now make sense to also put more control >> over the choice of language into the hands of the people who will actually >> be using it? >> >> Of course, there will be management concerns. It's important to be able to >> hire future developers, and fragmentation could occur if multiple teams each >> chose a different language. On the other hand, are these >> considerations fundamentally different when choosing libraries such as >> hibernate, spring, lambdaj or lombok, or when choosing testng in preference >> to lombok? and is code reuse in many organisations really high enough that >> you can't already claim the codebases of different projects are fragmented? >> In truth, is the suffering all that great where we *already* use different >> languages for parts of a system (SQL and javascript anyone...)? >> >> Where is the balance here? Is it really still acceptable, in this day and >> age, for management to mandate that "though shalt use Java, and only Java"? >> >> -- >> Kevin Wright >> >> mail / gtalk / msn : kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com >> pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright >> twitter: @thecoda > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > >
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