DJ’s Weblog

For a while now, people have been talking about the fall from favour of Java (aka the new COBOL).
Today Obie Fernandez points to some hopelessly weak arguments against scripting / dynamic languages … from the father of Java himself, James Gosling.
Is Gosling’s post just a moment of madness, or a sign of hopeless desperation?

At this year’s Sapphire in Boston, Shai Agassi came out with some astounding and questionable views on free and open source software: “Open-source technologies such as Python and PHP, to name just two, are of great interest to college students and younger people with a passion.“
He goes on to point out the distance between that, [...]