Before you think of being a do-gooder...

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 01:49:30AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   A couple of points...
> 
>   1) Unlike bricklaying, or carpentry, or metalworking, etc, there isn't
> a century or two of publications and knowledge handed down from
> generation to generation.  C and Java are two of the "oldest" languages
> currently in major use for new development.  Stuff like Python, Ruby,
> PHP is almost brand new.  How many "centuries of practice" are there for
> these languages?

Actually PHP was released publicly a few months before java.  Java is
only about 11 years old.  C is over 30 years old.  Ruby is 1993 (before
java), and python is 1991.  So of your list, java is the newest of all.
Hardly an old language.  Personally I wouldn't miss it. :)

Len Sorensen
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