Comments on: links for 2008-05-14 http://www.bieberlabs.com/archives/2008/05/13/links-for-2008-05-14/ Looking for the practical in a world full of cruft Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:46:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Tony Sintes http://www.bieberlabs.com/archives/2008/05/13/links-for-2008-05-14/#comment-43128 Tony Sintes Tue, 20 May 2008 03:14:40 +0000 http://www.bieberlabs.com/archives/2008/05/13/links-for-2008-05-14/#comment-43128 When I was in college 2 guys in the ACM decided to re-implement Java. It was probably around the time of Java 1.2 beta. I told them they were nuts. Of course, they didn't listen to me. Nothing to it they said. 4 years to re-implement Winforms. All I can say is god bless them. Someone should graph $$$$ and time to market. Sounds like a losing equation to me. When I was in college 2 guys in the ACM decided to re-implement Java. It was probably around the time of Java 1.2 beta. I told them they were nuts. Of course, they didn’t listen to me. Nothing to it they said.

4 years to re-implement Winforms. All I can say is god bless them. Someone should graph $$$$ and time to market.

Sounds like a losing equation to me.

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