Seminar Wrapup

Will one of these languages become the next big thing?

How is their performance?

Fractal benchmarks:

http://www.timestretch.com/FractalBenchmark.html

looping, function call and matrix math benchmarks

http://acker3.ath.cx/wordpress/archives/7

floating point math benchmarks

http://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2005-10/000599.html


Web frameworks benchmarks ruby on rails vs others

http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Framework+Performance

python and Java compared:
http://www.ferg.org/projects/python_java_side-by-side.html

The Cathedral & the Bazaar
http://books.google.com/books?id=yGFNKDloXq0C&dq=the+cathedral+%26+the+bazaar&pg=PP1&ots=uyBghA2XTm&sig=7wST_VwehXoDvn63HSZoUjHkoEo&prev=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=LRW&q=The+Cathedral+%26+the+Bazaar&btnG=Search&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA19,M1

Author's view of python back a few years ago:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882

A ruby on rails fan predicts it won't take over

http://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2005-10/000599.html

And now lets look around at that:

http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/hosting/shared.asp?isc=gooh1003af
web hosting with python/ruby/php available.

http://www.hostmonster.com/
more web hosting - ruby but not python
http://whipanorbit.com/hosting.html
and now python not ruby

but most of the low cost providers provide neither.