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Reality is subjective and local. At any given time most developers will neither have much real choice when it comes to technology nor have a longer term perspe
by bborud 8y ago
Reality is subjective and local.
At any given time most developers will neither have much real choice when it
comes to technology nor have a longer term perspective. Hence most developers will stick to what they know and what organizational inertia seems the path of least resistance.
The comparison to COBOL is good for several reasons.
- heelix 8y agoMy first bit of production Java code was an applet that used cobra to talk with COBOL in the Java 1.0 days. When I'm bridging new languages to Java codebases, I always wonder if this is the 'new hotness' I'll be driving next.