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There's exceptions to all those examples you've given. Web dev: There is tons of Java web dev junk Tomcat and all that. MochiWeb and Yaws are Erlang web plat
by njharman 18y ago
There's exceptions to all those examples you've given.
Web dev: There is tons of Java web dev junk Tomcat and all that. MochiWeb and Yaws are Erlang web platforms.
Video games: Eve Online is mostly Stackless Python with some C++ libs.
General desktop software: (not sure what this category means) but wings3d is written in Erlang, plenty of examples here http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=browse&c=32 http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=browse&c=32
Complex enterprise development: I doubt there is such a beast written in only one language. And I argue that Java is used because it is close to best for hordes of programmer drones working for enterprises. The non-hordes are why jruby, jython, scala are becoming popular.
pg did the airline ticket thing in Lisp cause it was best for him.
You claim short experience and reiterate long held stereotypes. I claim 20 years of experience and see a vastly different picture than you do.