Re: Today (Feb 26) IBM announcements

On 28 Feb, 01:51, "Pete Dashwood" <dashw...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

In fact, the main argument  for doing the Java conversion is so that new age
programmers can maintain code (and they need to do this less in an OO
language, than a non-OO one, if they play their cards right...) in a
language they are familiar with. If this language is also perceived as being
"past its sell-by date", then there may be no point in converting to it.
Instead, re-write or re-script what needs change and do it in whatever
language facilitates that, whether it is C#, PHP, or Ruby...

Ruby is generating fierce interest in Europe, even more than elsewhere.


So too is GROOVY
.

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