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It's an instance of market adoption of a product, being a solution to an urgent problem helps. Many programming languages are scripting languages of a platform
by 6ren 14y ago
It's an instance of market adoption of a product, being a solution to an urgent problem helps. Many programming languages are scripting languages of a platform, and it's the platform that solves the problem. In general it's subject to all the vagrancies of marketing, especially whether it gets publicized/promoted/pushed. If there are competing products, and both do the same job well, probably one will win (e.g. python is used for integration).
BTW: What problem did Java solve? It seemed to be intended for settop boxes; then for web applets; but serendipitously got traction in the enterprise. It sounds almost a counter-example (is it?)
- ChuckMcM 14y agoSee below, but specifically to your enterprise comment, by creating an OS independent abstraction environment Java code could cross boundaries of folks equipment and the security policies insured that offering up programmability didn't mean giving away the farm. That was a need the enterprise providers had had for a long time (and one that Rexx was also targeting btw)