4 ms·
That's not necessarily significant unless you want to take it a step further and claim C++ and/or Java have a causal relationship with those market capitalizati
by brett 19y ago
That's not necessarily significant unless you want to take it a step further and claim C++ and/or Java have a causal relationship with those market capitalizations.
There could be a lot of reasons why very large software companies are using the same languages.
- aston 19y agoIt's certainly not coincidence that both Microsoft and Google use C++ for their big web apps. I'm suggesting that the opportunity to learn how and why their systems work as they do is a valuable one, even if you'd rather be coding in Python, Ruby, or Arc.
- euccastro 19y agoThe poster talks about being the <10th employee, so I don't think he's considering going to work for Microsoft or Google. It's questionable that there is much overlap between the "hows and whys" of the practices of these companies (that count their employees by the thousands and their bottom line by the billions), with the "hows and whys" of what you need for a startup. Any opportunity to learn is valuable; whether learning the MS/Google way is a good choice depends on your alternatives.
- ks 19y agoI couldn't agree more