in reply to Switching from lang X to Y

Boo! But great example for "don't trust any statistics you did not fake yourself". Just a few points:

  1. why would anybody post an article sporting "Why we moved from language X to language Y"?
  2. it seems that follow-ups aren't considered ("we moved back because", "we failed miserably" etc). Why would anybody not write an article about failure?
  3. Audiatur et altera pars - complete failure. No searches for e.g. "we considered to move from X to Y", "we restrained moving from X to Y". Again, why would anybody post such an article?

Draw your own conclusions.

So, for me: no road sign, no red flag, no information whatsoever, no relevance in my daily doing as perl programmer, no valid sign where to turn to get paid some rent, after all this computing madness.

Going out to watch the river flow.

perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'

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Re^2: Switching from lang X to Y
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Mar 20, 2017 at 23:58 UTC

    Too long to go into now and have told at least one story here before but Amazon.com had a couple fairly epic, "We switched from X to Y and Y bit us on the ass pretty hard and we went back to X," where X was Perl and Y was Java and Ruby respectively. The Ruby one was small. The Java one was millions of dollars and 18 months of roundfiled application code plus the departmental acrimony that went with the wasted time, diluted customer service, lousy code, and multiple sessions of being retrained.

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Re^2: Switching from lang X to Y
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 21, 2017 at 06:32 UTC

    And New lamps for old; Bright shiney gold.

    With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
    Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
    "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". The enemy of (IT) success is complexity.
    In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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