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Archive for May, 2008

Google: sorry, but Lisp/Ruby/Erlang not on the menu

Yes, language propaganda again. Ain’t it fun ?
Here comes a nice quote from the latest Steve Yegge post (read it entirely if you have the time, it’s both fun and educational - at least for me). So, there:
I made the famously, horribly, career-shatteringly bad mistake of trying to use Ruby at Google, for this project. [...]

Java going down, Python way up, and more …

According to O’Reilly Radar, sales of Java books have declined in the last 4 years by almost 50%. C# is selling more books from year to year and will probably level up with Java in 2008. Javascript is on the rise (due to AJAX, for sure) and PHP is on a surprising decrease path (although [...]