Re: OT: Comparison of Java, Perl, PHP, C++, C#, VB in PECI survey

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From: Tim Smith (reply_in_group_at_mouse-potato.com)
Date: 05/08/04 

Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 04:03:33 GMT

In article <2bfb3b97.0405070709.54d9e4d0@posting.google.com>, asj wrote:
> A new informal survey shows that Java supports a much larger and faster
> growing book publishing ecosystem than other languages, including PHP,
> Perl, C++, C#, and VB. The survey (which I'll christen the Publishing
> Ecosystem Capacity Indicator - or PECI for short) looked at the number of
> books published in amazon.com for each year since 1995.

But is this a good thing? A large number of books on a given subject often
means one or both of:

1. It's the flavor of the month with the PHBs, and so every publisher rushes
out a ton of crappy books.

2. The thing itself has a lot of crappy aspects, leading to a need for a lot
of books.

There are many Java libraries and technologies that are very awkward to use,
and bloated in their interfaces. Things that are easy to figure out in,
say, Perl, just from the perldoc documentation, often send me to the
bookstore in Java. 

-- 
--Tim Smith

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