From time to time, programmers sail into uncharted waters - they get some time to build a prototype and evaluate a new technology. A month or so later, after showing how something can be done, one of the worst examples of corporate insanity happens. Some brilliant mind thinks of a way to save money or deliver earlier by shipping the prototype.
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dgary replied ago:
and they say programmers don't understand business needs...
ciczan replied ago:
The solution is interesting, but you have to be careful on what obscure language you choose. Because nowadays a lot of this languages already compile to Java bytecode.
Jim Wilson replied ago:
I don't know - that seems like a win-win to me. Say you pick Ruby for example. If they decide to ship the prototype, you've effectively killed arguments against using Ruby for business apps (yay!).
Alternatively, if you decide to use Ruby and they don't ship the prototype, you get to reimplement it in Java (yay! ... oh wait).
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