Comments on: Overheard: everything should use Java (or COBOL) http://www.mindtouch.com/blog/2008/04/03/overheard-everything-should-use-java-or-cobol/ Blogging new enterprise software, mashups, and the application integration platform we develop: Deki Wiki. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:26:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Aaron Fulkerson http://www.mindtouch.com/blog/2008/04/03/overheard-everything-should-use-java-or-cobol/#comment-1661 Aaron Fulkerson Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:52:32 +0000 http://www.mindtouch.com/blog/2008/04/03/overheard-everything-should-use-java-or-cobol/#comment-1661 Mike, Really, you think so? Come on, Java and Mono are incredibly easy to install. I can't agree that either is any more difficult to install than PHP, Python, or (God forbid) Perl. Now, I will agree that Tomcat can be a bit of a chore to setup, but aside from this I just don't see how any is more difficult than the other. Have you installed either recently? There are RPMs and installers for every major distro and OS. Mike,

Really, you think so? Come on, Java and Mono are incredibly easy to install. I can’t agree that either is any more difficult to install than PHP, Python, or (God forbid) Perl. Now, I will agree that Tomcat can be a bit of a chore to setup, but aside from this I just don’t see how any is more difficult than the other. Have you installed either recently? There are RPMs and installers for every major distro and OS.

]]> By: Mike http://www.mindtouch.com/blog/2008/04/03/overheard-everything-should-use-java-or-cobol/#comment-1655 Mike Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:12:54 +0000 http://www.mindtouch.com/blog/2008/04/03/overheard-everything-should-use-java-or-cobol/#comment-1655 This strikes me as a case of the pot calling the kettle black. From an end user point of view, both Java and C# are a pain to deploy and manage, in particular on Linux or in hosted environments. The easiest to deploy is probably PHP, followed by Perl and Python applications. This strikes me as a case of the pot calling the kettle black. From an end user point of view, both Java and C# are a pain to deploy and manage, in particular on Linux or in hosted environments. The easiest to deploy is probably PHP, followed by Perl and Python applications.

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