I’ve just read Billy Burke’s Dynamic Languages: Rationalizations and Myths. Very interesting read. Bill has many good points. I especially agree with him about the importance of great thread support. Java clearly is better here than current Ruby, PHP or Python implementations. (unless you use JRuby or Jython).
But I think Bill misses something.As I wrote […]

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Language wars can be fun. But one should not take them too seriously.
Recently there has been a lot of discussion, especially about Ruby and Java. A couple of years ago, it was mostly Java vs. C++ or Python vs. Perl.
I’ve been working as a programmer for about 8 years and I’ve used many languages, including […]

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