Is this another rant?….Yes. I apologize for all the rants lately, but hopefully there is some educational value woven throughout my posts, and besides I promised this one.
Lets start with a history lesson…
In the beginning there was assembly, the language that changed with each machine architecture. The machines ran quick and required little […]
The JVM is not Java
February 15th, 2008 · No Comments
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JVM Language War
December 7th, 2007 · No Comments
Today it seems that certain people have their panties in a wad over a post from Charles Nutter on how to make Ruby syntax look like Groovy syntax.
When I first saw Charles’ post I immediately saw it as a tool to help a friend of mine who is familiar with Groovy syntax understand Ruby syntax […]
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JRuby vs Groovy
September 22nd, 2007 · 5 Comments
Lately at my office there has been some conversation about dynamic languages, and which one we should be investigating to replace dead languages like, ColdFusion, there I said it. Luckily one of the dynamic language junkies left to go work for Netscape, now Propellar, because he was a Python fan boy. I looked a little […]
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