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In the last couple of years, we have seen the rise of the netbook, the smartphone, and languages like Python and Ruby. Each of these are, apparently, "fast enou
by michael_dorfman 16y ago
In the last couple of years, we have seen the rise of the netbook, the smartphone, and languages like Python and Ruby. Each of these are, apparently, "fast enough" to be highly succesful.
For consumer purposes. However, a ginormous amount of the software in operation today is not aimed at consumers at all, and don't resemble Farmville in the slightest.
Most programmers are writing COBOL (even if they are using a slightly more modern language to do it in.)
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoI'm not sure I fully understand you, but I'll try to answer: yes, "enterprises" don't run their business off a smartphone, but if they move to (internal) web applications or don't spend the extra funds to make their CRUD desktop applications even faster, they don't use, or need, the multi-core parallel programming model either. If the above is not an answer to what you meant, could you please clarify?
- michael_dorfman 16y agoI mean that these "enterprise" applications (which are not CRUD desktop applications, and are definitely not moving to web applications in my lifetime) run on "big iron", which is multi-processor-based-- and that there will be lots of people working hard to make these platforms more parallel-friendly in the future.