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[Kurt Wall]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 06:28:07AM -0500, David Bandel took 35 lines to write:
> On 1/16/06, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> > ...has been bested. This article is from 19 November last year. I can't
> > imagine how I manage to miss it:
> >
> > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/19/149242
> >
> 
> Following the links, I found myself at perens.sourcelabs.com looking
> over the forecasts for 2006.  The last item cuaght my eye (Trouble
> ahead for PHP) not because I don't like PHP for all the things Bruce
> mentions, but the fact that it's a perfect example of "if you have
> trouble predicting the future, predict the past".  I still vividly
> remember the horrors involved in the PHP 3-4 upgrade debacle until
> they could make versions 3 and 4 play nice together.  If this article
> is on track (I suspect it is), looks like yet another upgrade debacle
> is in the offing for 5-6 trying to fix the security problems.
> 
> Guess Perl will start seeing more adherents (for me, it's more
> flexible and more secure anyway).

What caught my eye "Java begins its decline as an Enterprise Platform."
I've been saying almost since the beginning that it was over-hyped
language. Its continued popularity seemed to me to be the result of
constantly banging the drum on its behalf, which had the effect of
keeping interest and attention up. When you quit banging the Java drum,
people start looking elsewhere. I guess my axiom would be that if you
need to keep hyping something, it isn't the next big thing. 

PHP, on the other hand, whatever its problems, has wheels without the
need for constant marketing.

Kurt
-- 
People need good lies.  There are too many bad ones.
	-- Bokonon, "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.