Comments on: Is Java the new Cobol? http://www.opensourceconnections.com/2008/01/02/is-java-the-new-cobol-2/ Automating the Science to Enable the Art Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:26:48 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Ashish http://www.opensourceconnections.com/2008/01/02/is-java-the-new-cobol-2/comment-page-1/#comment-7202 Ashish Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:10:11 +0000 http://www.opensourceconnections.com/2008/01/02/is-java-the-new-cobol/#comment-7202 That's why I've always made it a point to diversify my tech skills. Java was eventually going to die out, and the more I've been working with .NET and RoR in the past year, the more I feel that Java is just so bloated (even though I had been working with Java for several years beforehand) That’s why I’ve always made it a point to diversify my tech skills. Java was eventually going to die out, and the more I’ve been working with .NET and RoR in the past year, the more I feel that Java is just so bloated (even though I had been working with Java for several years beforehand)

]]> By: Jason http://www.opensourceconnections.com/2008/01/02/is-java-the-new-cobol-2/comment-page-1/#comment-7152 Jason Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:12:24 +0000 http://www.opensourceconnections.com/2008/01/02/is-java-the-new-cobol/#comment-7152 There's never a one-size-fits-all solution. One concern that we've heard before is the scalability of RoR. Has anyone seen a big scale Rails deployment? There’s never a one-size-fits-all solution. One concern that we’ve heard before is the scalability of RoR. Has anyone seen a big scale Rails deployment?

]]> By: Scott http://www.opensourceconnections.com/2008/01/02/is-java-the-new-cobol-2/comment-page-1/#comment-7147 Scott Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:50:45 +0000 http://www.opensourceconnections.com/2008/01/02/is-java-the-new-cobol/#comment-7147 I've been mired in both clean and ridiculously Byzantine Java code for the past few months, and I think my thoughts on the matter are expressed best by Bruce Tate in [From Ruby to Java](http://www.pragprog.com/titles/fr_j2r "From Ruby to Java"). To paraphrase: Java was modeled after C++, which was modeled after C, which was meant to be a System Language on which to build an operating system. That's fine if you're modeling the internals of a computer, but not if you're modeling real-world things. What's needed for that is an Application Language, and that's Ruby. ...and Python I’ve been mired in both clean and ridiculously Byzantine Java code for the past few months, and I think my thoughts on the matter are expressed best by Bruce Tate in [From Ruby to Java](http://www.pragprog.com/titles/fr_j2r “From Ruby to Java”).

To paraphrase: Java was modeled after C++, which was modeled after C, which was meant to be a System Language on which to build an operating system. That’s fine if you’re modeling the internals of a computer, but not if you’re modeling real-world things. What’s needed for that is an Application Language, and that’s Ruby.

…and Python

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