Conventional wisdom: “It’s a toy! Fine for internal tools, but you couldn’t possibly write real production code that way.” In 1998, they said that about Java. In 2006, they said it about Rails. What are they saying that about today?
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The first semester core CS course at Brown was already taught in Java in 1997 when I took it. We were using it in "real production code" in the summer job I had in 1998.
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(If I had to pick a language for which that that was true in 1998, it would be Python, no question).
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Siri, define the dot com boom: Java implementations on giant Sun hardware with 8 figures in consulting costs that could have been done in Perl by a team of 4. To be fair: Java was not ready for prime time so that hardware was required.
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