On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ** Reply to message from Tracy Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 > 11:52:19 -0700 > >> The switch to functional programming >> will also raise the bar for programmers giving the truly talented >> greater opportunity to compete against the Java spewing body shops of >> labor outsource companies whose programmers took a semester of Java >> and now consider themselves Software Engineers. > > are we abit biased against Java maybe. Visual Basic makes sense but > Java? oh well, to each his/her own.
Java has the largest user base so Tracy may have run into more Java spewing body shops. At the JVM Languages summit, one of the lightning presenters suggested that we simply stop using Java. Use the JVM. Use Jython, JRuby, Groovy, etc. But stop using Java which is less productive and produces more source code for getting the same work done. No one objected. -Chuck -- http://cobra-language.com/ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
