Re: WebObjects scalability question - WOSession?
Re: WebObjects scalability question - WOSession?
- Subject: Re: WebObjects scalability question - WOSession?
- From: Ian Joyner <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:35:31 +1100
On 17 Nov 2010, at 06:49, Pascal Robert wrote:
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> Le 2010-11-16 à 14:42, Antonio Petri a écrit :
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>> Of course, the sad reality is that our industry loves to just syntactically masturbate with different languages and pretend that we're much better for it when the reality is that basically nothing has changed in 30 years in terms of how we actually solve problems.
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>> I get this as iTunes, Google and Twitter could have well been built using Pascal (the language...)
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> No, because Pascal is too fat :-) At least that was one of my teachers said in college when we had to do a DOS (!!) app to send files over a NULL modem and he said that we will do the project in C because Pascal is too fat...
C is both fat and lean - the wrong way round - fat with traps and bereft of sensible patterns, like good string and array handling. It is sad to see how teachers like that helped establish C - the worst thing that ever happened to computing - in a dominant position. Now that really SUCKS!
I think I'll reiterate Bob Barton's quote:
"Systems programmers are high priest of a low cult"
http://www.smalltalk.org/smalltalk/TheEarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk_VI.html
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>> On Nov 15, 2010, at 8:50 PM, Ian Joyner wrote:
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>> > I agree with this too. Problem or fixed complexity must be dealt with somewhere in the system, and arguments often abound as to where that should be done (almost always without people recognizing that fact). I wrote on that recently too:
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>> > http://www.ianjoyner.name/Ian_Joyner/Complexity.html
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>> > so am in vehement agreement.
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>> > It's always a problem getting something to run quickly, like Twitter, to see if it succeeds or fails, before committing significant resources, and then like Twitter maybe rewriting your message queues in Scala for speed. (Something done by WO, I think?)
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>> > But getting something quickly done in WO, might be a problem. Pascal's words about "learning cliff" still ring in my ears ;-)
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>> > Ian
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