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NSA uses Java. Great to know. Apparently the professionals at the NSA are not swayed by fashion.
by mypov 15y ago
NSA uses Java. Great to know. Apparently the professionals at the NSA are not swayed by fashion.
- jackowayed 15y agoThey use more "fashionable" languages too. Just not for distributed databases. Most popular open source databases are also written in C/C++/Java.
- vegai 15y agoThat's a ridiculous defense: they were obviously swayed by fashion at some point. It just happened several years ago.
- mypov 15y agoYou appear to tilting at windmills of your own making. What I find ridiculous. Is your claim of having had a window into the operational decisions of NSA back when they opted for Java.
- _pius 15y agoLet me see if I understand your argument. If they had chosen a newer language you didn't approve of, you would have glibly dismissed their engineering decision as "being swayed by fashion." Since they chose Java, though, the engineers are being "professional" and anyone saying that their decision was swayed by fashion is being "ridiculous," claiming to have a "window into the operational decisions of NSA." A little bias here perhaps?