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On 07/08/2016 15:32, Kent Fredric wrote:
>> Let them use java* codes, as that is what all the universities are
>> > teaching and promoting. I agree
>> > with gentoo proper on severely restricting java*, on gentoo-proper,
>> > but that sort of thing is killing gentoo and just appears to the open
>> > world as a filter mechanism to keep out and go elsewhere, snoot.
>> > There are just too many exciting and useful codes out there running
>> > java.
> "All" ? Some. And the dominance and focus on Java is itself telling of
> the quality and type of the education provider.
>
> Some education providers may not touch Java at all, and focus
> predominantly on C.
>
> You can't satisfy everyone out of the box.
>
I have no idea where James gets his information from, but I suspect it's
a niche market where uni students do "clustering" - whatever that is.
The interesting apps out there are mostly running python, go and
(sometimes) lua. And that's what I observe in my day job -
business/mobile ISP.
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com