Comments on: On living software… http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2007/01/18/on-living-software/ A blog on Technology Convergence Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:57:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: avinash http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2007/01/18/on-living-software/#comment-8066 avinash Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:27:08 +0000 http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2007/01/18/on-living-software/#comment-8066 Hi curiousEngine, I suppose, being curious, you'll have no problem learning D :-) Hi curiousEngine,

I suppose, being curious, you’ll have no problem learning D :-)

]]> By: curiousEngine http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2007/01/18/on-living-software/#comment-7525 curiousEngine Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:50:26 +0000 http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2007/01/18/on-living-software/#comment-7525 Is it worthwhile to learn D? Quote from http://www.tiobe.com/: It is confronting to review my winner/loser forecasts of last year. I claimed last year that C#, Java, Ruby, Python and PHP (in that order) would be the winners of 2006. Mmmmm, Ruby was a good guess, but C# didn't really replace C++ on the Windows platform in 2006 as I expected. PHP has lost lots of its popularity due to its insecurities instead of gaining popularity. Why Java dropped that much is unclear to me. My list of losers contained Perl, C, C++, and Visual Basic. That was better. Now for 2007: my winners will be C# (migration from C++ and Visual Basic, I see it all around me) and the D language. Everybody who knows the D language is very enthousiastic about it and it has the potential to become a real enterprise language. Perl and Delphi will become the losers of 2007 in my opinion. This is all about the availability of sufficient and more modern alternatives. Is it worthwhile to learn D? Quote from http://www.tiobe.com/:

It is confronting to review my winner/loser forecasts of last year. I claimed last year that C#, Java, Ruby, Python and PHP (in that order) would be the winners of 2006. Mmmmm, Ruby was a good guess, but C# didn’t really replace C++ on the Windows platform in 2006 as I expected. PHP has lost lots of its popularity due to its insecurities instead of gaining popularity. Why Java dropped that much is unclear to me. My list of losers contained Perl, C, C++, and Visual Basic. That was better. Now for 2007: my winners will be C# (migration from C++ and Visual Basic, I see it all around me) and the D language. Everybody who knows the D language is very enthousiastic about it and it has the potential to become a real enterprise language. Perl and Delphi will become the losers of 2007 in my opinion. This is all about the availability of sufficient and more modern alternatives.

]]> By: keithb http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2007/01/18/on-living-software/#comment-7219 keithb Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:30:51 +0000 http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2007/01/18/on-living-software/#comment-7219 Hi Avinash, Glad you found my posting thought provoking. Good luck with using Squeak in your courses (but you know, Smalltalk isn't quite as alive as it could be: soften them up with Squeak then hit them with some Self ;) Keith Hi Avinash,
Glad you found my posting thought provoking. Good luck with using Squeak in your courses (but you know, Smalltalk isn’t quite as alive as it could be: soften them up with Squeak then hit them with some Self ;)

Keith

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