3 ms·
I never understood the disdain for Java that I'd hear from Spolsky. It wasn't perfect, but it was certainly more cross platform than .net at the time.
by _ea1k 3y ago
I never understood the disdain for Java that I'd hear from Spolsky. It wasn't perfect, but it was certainly more cross platform than .net at the time.
- codinghorror 3y agoI dunno, I'm with Joel on this one. Not a Java fan.
- krallja 3y agoI was at the strategic offsite where we decided to go with .NET. Java wasn’t installed on Windows by default. The original version of Wasabi, known as Thistle, was written in Java, by the intern in the class before Aardvark’d. It transpiled ASP to PHP. Every intern class was named after an animal with the next consecutive letter. I don’t remember any of them except Aardvark, and I was a “B????” intern!
- blinkymach12 3y agoFrom memory and a little grepping of the Weekly Kiwi archives, I found: "Project Null Terminator", Aardvark, B??, Caribou, Dingo, E??, Flying Fox, Giganotosaurus, ??