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> Can you show these for any other language? In a way that's not arbitrary and self-selecting. I suspect you could have sampled Java web startups vs those stil
by WilliamLP 16y ago
> Can you show these for any other language? In a way that's not arbitrary and self-selecting.
I suspect you could have sampled Java web startups vs those still using C, Perl and CGI back during the time of Java's explosive growth and seen a systematic difference in profitability.
> Thanks for the laugh.
So any idea that there could be some statistical correlation between language choice and any kind of measured success is, on the face of it, absurd?
- chromatic 16y agoI suspect you could have sampled Java web startups vs those still using C, Perl and CGI back during the time of Java's explosive growth and seen a systematic difference in profitability. Amazon.com has made a lot of money, hasn't it? So any idea that there could be some statistical correlation between language choice and any kind of measured success is, on the face of it, absurd? A relevant statistical correlation? Yes.