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I always like the Paul Graham quote: "At this point, anyone proposing to run Windows on servers should be prepared to explain what they know about servers that
by michaelneale 18y ago
I always like the Paul Graham quote:
"At this point, anyone proposing to run Windows on servers should be prepared to explain what they know about servers that Google, Yahoo, and Amazon don't." (from http://www.paulgraham.com/opensource.html http://www.paulgraham.com/opensource.html).
Can this apply to programming tools/languages/platforms? Eg that includes Python and, gasp, Java.
- pmorici 18y agoDoesn't Google use quite a bit of Python... or is that your point?
- michaelneale 18y agoyes that is half my point
- danohuiginn 18y agoIf you're starting from scratch, windows is a bad plan. But if you're a company that already has a bunch of .NET code, and the usual tangle of business-admin stuff built around Excel, then using windows for some applications can be much easier. Plus, I second the article's love of IronPython.
- iamelgringo 18y agoIronPython does rock indeed. Being able to poke .NET libraries from a command line is really cool. I had an idea for a Windows IT administration app last year, so I spent some time poking around IronPython, .NET and Monad/PowerShell. I liked what I saw, I just wanted to try my hand at web development instead.
- corentin 18y agoLet's try: "At this point, anyone proposing to write their software in Lisp should be prepared to explain what they know about programming that Google, Yahoo and Amazon don't." How does it sound?
- michaelneale 18y agoI think it makes as much sense as the original.