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Wednesday, December 08, 2004

Ours Go to Eleven

Considered Opinion writes in a comment...

Perl > Python > Lisp > Smalltalk - and none are well suited to typical business applications (good at all of: Security, GUI, RDBMS, Reporting, Distributed Computing, Reasonable Performance...)
Ignorance is bliss.
On a much lesser note -- all have much smaller populations than MS or Java.
At least you got that going for you. Ours go to eleven.

1 comment:

Patrick Logan said...

Ask on the Lisp and Smalltalk newsgroups about successes (and failures for that matter) of using those in business applications. You might be surprised.

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