Mat Schaffer wrote:
>> On 7/9/06, Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10 / gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I haven't  met anyone working for a large or reasonably-large company
>>>  who is thinking of mandating anything but Java. Python is generally
>>> considered highly suspect and Ruby isn't on the radar at all. Ajax
>>> is seen
>>> by many as a dangerous and subversive practice that must not be
>>> allowed to
>>> take root. If you have examples to the contrary, I'd be really
>>> interested to
>>> hear them.
>
> Comcast is laying some serious AJAX groundwork these days.  We still
> do a lot of Java, but I've done Ruby for smaller projects already.
> -Mat
I know of several organizations that have thrown Java out because of
excessive memory usage on the servers. What I don't know is whether the
alternatives (PHP and ASP-non-.NET) are any more respectful of one's
memory budget than Java.
>
>

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