By skoop
via andigutmans.blogspot.com
Published: Mar 25 2008 / 05:08
A few years ago I worked on a very big Enterprise IBM Websphere project. We had some brilliant engineers in the project both in the development and architecture groups. I remember having had several discussions with some of the brightest people on the team regarding PHP and dynamic languages and generally they were looked upon as toy languages without a bright future. Lack of strict typing, scripting performance, and other reasons were given for why Java would persevere as the language of choice.
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joecoder replied ago:
Ironically, I'm seeing an increasing number of Ruby developers suggesting deployment using JRuby on... you guessed it... Java-based enterprise platforms (J2EE,JEE). The so-called brilliant engineers on the author's big Websphere project were obviously not correct in their predictions about dynamic languages. After all, dynamic languages were alive and well and used for web development before Java even existed. I believe the author is equally incorrect about the demise of Java in this context.
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