Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: java developers Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:55:08 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:55:11 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="HSlJAUb3pGXi3i7ZL/HoAw"; logging-data="8907"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+N0vgB7hb2QDEK5UqWw3j1" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:LTDMVKuL1n2iU8MlVe4E3DG1pao= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:10356 On 11/30/2011 7:14 AM, curixinfotech wrote: > why java is the language of choice for Developers. For the same reason that Sanskrit is the language of choice for botanists. In other words, the question's premise is flawed: There is no single "language of choice," but a choice of languages. Different languages have different characteristics that make them more or less suitable for a particular set of tasks. Some languages are chosen often, some are chosen infrequently -- but no language is chosen always, and no "serious" language is chosen never. Questions very like yours are sometimes posed by people seeking to enter the programming trade and wondering which language to build a career on. If that's your situation, then once again the question makes little sense. This is a fashion-driven industry in many ways, where languages and frameworks and disciplines and paradigms rise and fall like hem lines. You may make a career as a programer, but you will not make a career as a Java programmer or as a Python programmer or as a COBOL programmer or as an AnySingleLanguage programmer. Expect to use many languages over time, some regularly and repeatedly, some just a few times in special cases. If you're the world's best Java programmer but will not learn Guava or Canberra or Mastodon or whatever the next fashion is, your career will be brief and boring. -- Eric Sosman esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid