Or that those using them aren't the target market?
Microsoft and Oracle are both most interested in languages and tools
they themselves would like to use to develop products. Oracle's not
about to develop the next generation Fusion product in Groovy, Ruby, or
Python. Similarly, Microsoft is not about to develop the next version
of any of their products in such a language. Oracle's going to do C/C++
for the database and Java for most everything else. Microsoft will be
doing C/C++ for the lower OS levels and more C# for some of the
higher-level stuff -- but not Ruby, Python, or the like.
For both companies most of their big customers follow similar trends for
their big, mission-critical stuff.
That's not a rip (or RIP) on dynamic languages overall, but the market
really is not jumping on them for developing products in the same spaces
as Oracle and Microsoft's products nor for as the foundation of large,
mission-critical apps.
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Jess Holle
On 10/24/2010 11:43 AM, Fabrizio Giudici wrote:
On 10/24/2010 04:17 AM, hugh4life wrote:
On Oct 23, 6:48 pm, Miroslav Pokorny<miroslav.poko...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Funny a multi billion company like Microsoft cant afford the salary
of half
a dozen developers to keep the Iron family of languages alive so
their CLR
moniker has some substanc
So... Oracle decided not to directly support dynamic languages
including their IDEs; Microsoft is doing the same. Doesn't this smell
enough as the fact that there's just a few guys using them, not enough
to make them interesting?
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