Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 25th Sep 2005 12:03 UTC, submitted by anonymous
The Java programming language is powerful, but it has significant limitations for lightweight development. For certain problems, other programming languages such as Ruby may lead to better productivity. This article shows you what's important for productivity in an application's language.
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2005-06-29
The purpose of the application is irrelevant in our
discussion. For all I care, the application could be
counting presidential votes.
I also disagree with the major premise in your comment. The
fact is that with dynamic languages you can produce high
quality software at a shorter time, compared to static and/or
compiled languages.
How well a program scales is not a function of whether or
not it is written in a dynamic or statically compiled
language. How well a program scales is a closely related to
how well it is designed. The same argument is applicable to
a program's performance.[1]
I don't understand what you mean by authentication
abstraction, so I have no comments on that.
1 - Read the rant I posted earlier in this thread regarding
the sluggishness of Java applications compared to Python
ones.