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Date: | 2005-07-18 (21:59) |
From: | Alwyn Goodloe <agoodloe@g...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] (Mostly) Functional Design? |
We have to be cautious here. For about three years I was involved in evaluating technology for a large organization. Like most organizations, about 1/3 of the development was your standard GUI entry/SQL querries. Like most shops we wanted to pick something modern that was good for apps as well as had a great GUI/SQL interface. Java worked well for us. If someone came to me with and showed me a language that made 2/3 of my developers more productive, I would be quite happy. But here is the killer -- I have to ask about the other 1/3. We were trying to get away from supporting multiple languages. Its a nightmare from a support perspective. So my next question is about your GUI development environment. Is it as good as the others on the market? There are a lot of considerations that go into picking a language. With the execption of scripting languages, tools play a big part in this decision as do other factors. On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, skaller wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 12:15 -0600, Robert Morelli wrote: > > > With all due respect, claims of order of magnitude productivity > > gains, that OCaml is a far better language than Java, etc. are > > exactly the kind of advocacy that I think is counterproductive. > > Most programmers would regard such dramatic statements as implausible, > > if not preposterous. > > Yes they would .. until they tried it. > > -- > John Skaller <skaller at users dot sourceforge dot net> > >