REPLY: 47697.linux@1:103/705 22c0c03a   
   MSGID: 2:280/464.113 5e5adfa7   
   CHRS: UTF-8 4   
   Hallo Rob!   
      
    RS> I imagine there's some group(s) within Google that are schemeing   
    RS> to switch from Java to Go/Haskell/Julia/whatever-new-language,   
    RS> but sometimes the business justification for such efforts just   
    RS> aren't there.   
      
   Understood.  However for startups - or progressive oldtimers - who have   
   choices one would think they would choose a well supported compiler that has a   
   future rather than one that may have a glorious past without much of a   
   foreseeable future.   
      
    RS> e.g. Microsoft still uses "good ole" C++ for their Office product   
    RS> development rather than the C#/CRL/.NET stack they suggest   
    RS> everyone else uses.   
      
   No surprises there.  Anyhow c++ has a vibrant present as well as a half-decent   
   shot at a future so the above factoid has little prospects as it pertains to   
   java.  The embedded gurus can keep it ... along with the rest of the   
   abandonware coming from that direction.   
      
   Het leven is goed,   
   Maurice   
      
   ... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi.   
   --- GNU bash, version 5.0.11(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)   
    * Origin: Little Mikey's EuroPoint - Ladysmith BC, Canada (2:280/464.113)   
   SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 103/705 154/10 203/0 221/0 227/114 229/426 452   
   SEEN-BY: 229/616 1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 280/464 5003 288/100   
   SEEN-BY: 292/854 310/31 317/3 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/120 633/280   
   SEEN-BY: 712/848 770/1 2452/250 5020/545   
   PATH: 280/464 229/426