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"Which is the better language?..." Wrong Question!. One cannot compare languages as diverse as AWK, APL, Snobol, Prolog, Fortran, Lisp, Python, Java, PHP, and Many Others. More appropriate questions are "Which language I like best?", or, even better, "Which is the best language for my team to accomplish this tast within these constraints?". And, with that introduction... Nuxeo is an Open Source company that has a popular Enterprise Content Management. This product was initially developed in Python but they just Annouced a Switch to Java EE. It is not that they do no longer like Python; just that Java EE made more sense for them in their context. |
If you are interested in programming languages there are a number of fun links out in the web including the Online History of Programming Languages, a nice Graphical Timeline, several articles in Wikipedia, including a List of Programming Languages, and this fun presentation by Dick Gabriel and Guy Steele on the Lisp Family. And don't tell me I missed your favorite language; that is the whole point of this blog! :-)
Posted by Florian on October 09, 2006 at 03:55 AM PDT #
Posted by eduardo pelegri-llopart on October 09, 2006 at 05:45 AM PDT #
Posted by pcdinh on October 09, 2006 at 09:15 AM PDT #
Its not very suprising to me that a project which was built on Zope would switch to J2EE. Zope follows a very J2EE-like enterprisey style, and I can't imagine there would be much difference from a design perspective. In the enterprisey way of doing things, Java has a greater market share.
Now this doesn't necessarily mean that you *can't* deliver an "enterprise" solution with a different design approach. It just means that Nuxeo was not doing anything drastically different than what is already being done in the industry.
Now if Nuxeo had been developed in Django or Rails, and they decided to port *that* to J2EE, now *that* would be some interesting and controversial news.
Posted by casey on October 09, 2006 at 11:14 AM PDT #