Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Same Old, Same Old...

For most of my career as a programmer, languages in the “C family” (C, C++, and Java) have dominated the industry – and that's still true even today.  For this past year, the “big news” is that Java fell from #1 to #2 (and C rose from #1 to #2). 

For such a dynamic industry, this is remarkable stability.  Why is this so?  The only reason that seems plausible to me is inertia...

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