Re: Why is java considered a language for "web" or "internet" programming?
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"Mishagam" <noemail@provider.com> wrote in message
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I don't believe this. Only think that I agree with is that MSN uses
ASP.NET.
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Can you show any links.
Oliver Wong wrote:
From hearsay:
Ebay uses Java
http://www.sun.com/service/about/success/ebay5.html
Google uses LISP and Python
http://www.python.org/Quotes.html
http://www.sauria.com/~twl/conferences/pycon2005/20050325/Python%20at%20Google.html
Looks like I was wrong about LISP:
http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html
<quote>
I did try to introduce Lisp to Google. Having had some experience selling
Lisp at JPL I got all my ducks in a row, had a cool demo going, showed it to
all the other members of the ads team, and had them all convinced that this
was a good idea. The only thing left was to get approval from the VP of
engineering. The conversation went something like this:
Me: I'd like to talk to you about something...
Him: Let me guess - you want to use Smalltalk.
Me: Er, no...
Him: Lisp?
Me: Right.
Him: No way.
</quote>
I though I read somewhere that Google choose LISP because of how easy it
is to parallize a Lisp application, and Google doesn't own super computers,
but rather clusters of tens of thousands commodity PCs, which are great for
parallized apps.
[no citation provided]
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/1491221
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-963937.html
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/29/2052239
- Oliver