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| From | Joshua Cranmer đ§ <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Return of the Applets? |
| Date | 2015-04-06 21:36 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <mfvfpl$cf4$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 4/6/2015 7:03 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > What you don't understand it - while every languages has advantages in > some areas, every language also has disadvantages in some areas. The > two have a tendency to average out over the course of a large number of > programs. If you were to claim that the plurality of existing software were coded in COBOL by some reasonable metric (including LOC), I would be skeptical of that claim without references, but I would not find it unbelievable (I personally think that threshold was crossed by Java, C#, C, or C++ sometime in the last in 15 years, but I have no evidence to back it up). Certainly, I won't dispute that a large body of extant COBOL code exists. The claim I've objected to is not that COBOL is present in extant code, but rather that COBOL is the most-used language in terms of new code being added each year. I don't have any hard evidence of that, but there is circumstantial evidence to support it: other languages being more prevalent in academic curricula, more job advertisements, more resources being available, the fact that even major COBOL-users mostly limit their use of COBOL to maintenance of existing applications and use newer languages for new middleware/backend applications, etc. > Which still does not say that spreadsheets are programming languages. > And it's impossible to provide references to something which is not true. It refers specifically to "The number of end-users who write spreadsheet programs"--if spreadsheets are programs, then what are the formulas in them if not code written in a spreadsheet programming language? -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth
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Re: Return of the Applets? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-04-05 09:46 -0400
Re: Return of the Applets? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-05 13:12 -0400
Re: Return of the Applets? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-04-05 15:14 -0400
Re: Return of the Applets? Arne VajhĂžj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-04-05 16:41 -0400
Re: Return of the Applets? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-04-05 16:54 -0400
Re: Return of the Applets? Arne VajhĂžj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-04-05 17:08 -0400
Re: Return of the Applets? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-04-05 17:17 -0400
Re: Return of the Applets? Arne VajhĂžj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-04-05 17:30 -0400
Re: Return of the Applets? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-04-05 17:42 -0400
Re: Return of the Applets? Arne VajhĂžj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-04-05 17:52 -0400
Re: Return of the Applets? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-04-05 18:17 -0400
Re: Return of the Applets? Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2015-04-06 11:26 +0200
Re: Return of the Applets? Joshua Cranmer đ§ <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2015-04-06 13:23 -0500
Re: Return of the Applets? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-04-06 15:09 -0400
Re: Return of the Applets? Joshua Cranmer đ§ <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2015-04-06 17:33 -0500
Re: Return of the Applets? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-04-06 17:44 -0400
Re: Return of the Applets? Joshua Cranmer đ§ <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2015-04-06 19:10 -0500
Re: Return of the Applets? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-04-06 20:03 -0400
Re: Return of the Applets? Joshua Cranmer đ§ <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2015-04-06 21:36 -0500
Re: Return of the Applets? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-04-07 09:11 -0400
Re: Return of the Applets? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-04-06 23:25 +0000
Re: Return of the Applets? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-04-06 19:59 -0400
Re: Return of the Applets? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-04-07 13:29 +0000
Re: Return of the Applets? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-04-07 10:45 -0400
Re: Return of the Applets? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-04-07 15:51 +0000
Re: Return of the Applets? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-04-07 13:16 -0400
Re: Return of the Applets? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-04-07 20:22 +0000
Re: Return of the Applets? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-04-07 17:03 -0400
Re: Return of the Applets? Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@huldreskog.localdomain> - 2015-04-07 11:34 -0500
Re: Return of the Applets? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-04-07 13:18 -0400
Re: Return of the Applets? Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@huldreskog.localdomain> - 2015-04-07 12:40 -0500
Re: Return of the Applets? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-04-07 17:06 -0400
Re: Return of the Applets? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-04-07 20:28 +0000
Re: Return of the Applets? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-04-07 17:11 -0400
Re: Return of the Applets? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-04-07 23:00 +0000
Re: Return of the Applets? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-04-07 19:25 -0400
Re: Return of the Applets? Joshua Cranmer đ§ <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2015-04-06 13:09 -0500
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