Daily Archives: October 22nd, 2007

The Language Adoption Debate and “Three Stooges Syndrome”

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Tim “Ongoing” Bray’s Take
Tim Bray posted a blog entry on what drives adoption of a language in which he included some tables such as the only below:

Flawed
Founders
Polished
Successors

Procedural
FORTRAN, COBOL, PL/1
C

Object-Oriented
C++
Java

Higher-Level
Perl, TCL
Python, Ruby

This table of his should inspire a monkey knife fight on a number of blogs:

Flawed
Founders
Polished
Successors

Web-Centric
WebObjects, ColdFusion, ASP.Net, Struts, etc.,
etc., etc., PHP
Rails

Here’s an interesting one. What [...]

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The Official Segway of the Midlife Crisis

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

According to the Sybarites site, there’s a Ferrari-branded Segway:
Segway have teamed up with Ferrari to release a special limited edition version of their i2 Personal Transporter. Ferrari have used Segway’s as a transportation method around their Maranello factory for sometime now, the Segway PT i2 Ferrari Limited Edition comes in Ferrari’s signature color, red and [...]

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