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     Re: life ?   
     By: Maurice Kinal to Rob Swindell on Sat Feb 29 2020 10:03 pm   
      
    > 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.   
      
   Not sure which compiler of those languages I mentioned hast the glorious past   
   without much of a foreseeable future. Java?   
      
    >  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.   
      
   It was just another example of how some large influential tech firms don't   
   always "eat their own dog food".   
      
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