Language wars (was Re: [oclug] Zed)

[David F. Skoll]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 rod at giffinscientific.com wrote:

> They are fighting words, but since I'm not a Java biggott, I was letting
> it drop.

Ooooh!

> Essentially I'm an advocate of the "use the best tool for the job at hand"
> methodology of development.

Me too.  I was not necessarily advocating Tcl for application servers,
although it probably could be used for that (and is, AFAIK, in AOL's
Tcl-based aolserver -- http://www.aolserver.com/)

However, I'd like to pause this flame war to start another:

> In the web services market, they're not even on the radar.

The "Web services market" is vapour.  I read breathless reports in InfoWorld
about how Web services are the next big thing.  I don't buy it; Web-based
interfaces are disgustingly primitive compared to real GUI's, and the
response time is frustratingly slow.  I just do not see Web services
taking off.

In a year's time, I may be eating crow, but for now, that's what I think.

--
David.