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in thread Need food Monk

Nothing, but Java is the industry standard. When a manager thinks about doing a project, her first thought will be "Let's do it in Java"... it's another one of those things that no one ever got fired for choosing.

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Re^4: Need food Monk
by exussum0 (Vicar) on Jan 11, 2005 at 15:34 UTC
    That's an unfair assessment of java. It's the same as thinking of perl as only a good text manipulation language. Last I checked, perl can do things with Tk, data structures, statistics and so on.

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      I'm not sure I made any assessment of Java. I simply stated that Java programmers aren't, in general, any better than Perl programmers, and that the main reason they get paid more is that Java is the current industry standard.
        Or should I say "industry pet toy", let's not call it Industry Standard. C is the industry standard for OS development, after all. Java is just a popular tool for doing things with programmers with out a lot of "to the metal" experience and without "hacker tendancies". If you have business programmers that's what you use. If you have people who love programming and they dominate your outfit (and have management buy-in), that's what you avoid.
Re^4: Need food Monk
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 12, 2005 at 11:29 UTC
    "Let's do it in Java" is so 1990s. Managers who keep up with whatever literature they read will go for .NET nowadays.
Re^4: Need food Monk
by fraktalisman (Hermit) on Jan 13, 2005 at 14:50 UTC
    It seems that in Germany, at least regarding web design companies, PHP seems to be considered the standard tool now. People regularly ask me, why did you do it in Perl? Glad to be my own employer!