David G. Mackay wrote:
>
>>> Also, there are several engineers at Red Hat that are very unhappy with
>>> the impact that the 3.0 release is going to have on them.
>> Yes but it has been obvious for a long time that python does not
>> consider backwards compatibility to be important. This shouldn't have
>> come as a surprise. By comparison, perl has been around longer and
>
> Judging by some of the comments on the fedora-devel list, it did anyway.
Maybe some of those developers are young enough to not understand the
history. Or to have learned from experience that it matters.
>> One other consideration is that perl probably has the current advantage
>> in terms of available code library modules. Pretty much anything you
>> can imagine doing has already been done and contributed to CPAN so often
>> the code you have to write yourself is trivial with the modules doing
>> the bulk of the work. Java may be catching up in this regard but I
>> don't think there is a central place to find available code.
>
> Google? ;)
How do you tell google to _not_ give you text matches that are really
not about downloadable code modules in the language you want this week?
> I guess the real question is how well java is going to prosper under
> Oracle's ownership. Then again, with openjdk, it might not matter too
> much.
I don't think that can become much of an issue. On the other hand, some
of the other interesting projects (glassfish, opengrok, etc.) might be
more likely to go away or change.
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Les Mikesell
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