"Why Java and C++ developers should sleep well at night"

Lynn McGuire

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Sep 17, 2014, 12:05:28 PM9/17/14

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"Why Java and C++ developers should sleep well at night"
http://www.itworld.com/big-data/436286/why-java-and-c-developers-should-sleep-well-night

Nice! And nice picture of a dude sleeping under his
desk.

Yes, the programming world is continuing to fragment
but C / C++ are needful for large or compute time
intensive software packages.

Lynn

woodb...@gmail.com

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Sep 17, 2014, 1:50:12 PM9/17/14

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On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 11:05:28 AM UTC-5, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> "Why Java and C++ developers should sleep well at night"
>
> http://www.itworld.com/big-data/436286/why-java-and-c-developers-should-sleep-well-night
>
>
>
> Nice! And nice picture of a dude sleeping under his
> desk.
>

I sometimes sleep on the floor of my office too.

> Yes, the programming world is continuing to fragment
> but C / C++ are needful for large or compute time
> intensive software packages.
>

I'm not surprised C++ is doing well, but can't explain
Java's doing well.

Here's an example of an interesting development in
C++ realm:

http://bannalia.blogspot.com/2014/05/fast-polymorphic-collections-with.html

I don't think it has been mentioned here yet.

Brian
Ebenezer Enterprises - So far G-d has helped us.
http://webEbenezer.net

Rick C. Hodgin

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Sep 17, 2014, 2:23:57 PM9/17/14

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On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 1:50:12 PM UTC-4, woodb...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm not surprised C++ is doing well, but can't explain
> Java's doing well.

I've had this thought... this ranking is based on search engine queries.
Don't people go to search engines when they have a problem? And wouldn't
this stat reflect more how hard it is to work with any given language
than with its overall popularity? :-)

C is tops -- lots of issues with it, needs lots of online help.

Java is near the top, but dropping -- used to be much harder, but
with so many open source projects now it's easier to find examples
at GitHub.

And so on... :-)

I can say this ... I don't work with C#, but I've gone to search
engines many times to look up something in C# syntax just to see
what some code example I was looking at did. Am I somehow
inadvertently giving C# a boost even though I don't use it?
I sure hope not. :-)

Best regards,
Rick C. Hodgin

Scott Lurndal

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Sep 17, 2014, 4:13:08 PM9/17/14

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"Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c...@gmail.com> writes:
>On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 1:50:12 PM UTC-4, woodb...@gmail.com wrote:
>> I'm not surprised C++ is doing well, but can't explain
>> Java's doing well.
>
>I've had this thought... this ranking is based on search engine queries.
>Don't people go to search engines when they have a problem? And wouldn't
>this stat reflect more how hard it is to work with any given language
>than with its overall popularity? :-)

It likely has little to do with either popularity or difficulty. It's
a completely bogus measurement of popularity or usage statistics.

Java is doing well because of Tomcat, J2EE and the ease with which
websites can be implemented using Java.

David Harmon

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Sep 17, 2014, 5:52:48 PM9/17/14

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On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 10:49:56 -0700 (PDT) in comp.lang.c++,
woodb...@gmail.com wrote,

>I'm not surprised C++ is doing well, but can't explain
>Java's doing well.

For one thing, it is almost mandatory on Android.