Comment by theboywho | Hacker News Reader

Comment by theboywho | Hacker News Reader

I can't figure out what the target audience of this post is.

It's without doubt not programmers, as the article tries to explain what a programming language is "...It’s a programming language, a way of writing software code..."

And also, who is going to be interested in a story about java if they aren't programmers or in the IT business?

The author seems to not even know what a JVM language is. "...Originally, the Java virtual machine — aka the JVM — only ran code built with the Java programming language, but today, it runs all sorts of other languages..."

Another example where the author is not being consistent "...language called Clojure to a new and increasingly popular invention known as Scala...Lisp, a way of quickly scripting code"

So now clojure is a language, Scala an invention and Lisp, a way of quickly scripting code.

This article is making noise without talking to anybody.

I can't figure out what the target audience of this post is.

It's part of Wired's "Enterprise Technology" blog[1] so it's for CIO/CTO and other IT consultant types who don't write any code themselves, but make "best practice"[sic] recommendations.

[1] http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/

"I can draw the Javas on a whiteboard but I can't actually do the Javas."

Tech leadership or programming enthusiasist are potential targets. I gather the average person is actually the target due to this statement: "If you know Java at all, you probably think of it as something from the late ’90s, a child of the original internet boom, a little piece of downloadable software that sent a cartoon mascot dancing across your Netscape web browser."

This is a common refrain for all of the articles published in this column. They also made like 10 variations or so of the same article about Hadoop, Dremel and related software without actually explaining anything of value about the platform.

I guess the audience is whoever gets to see the ads.

"...Originally, the Java virtual machine — aka the JVM — only ran code built with the Java programming language, but today, it runs all sorts of other languages..."

I'm confused what your main problem here is, besides it's almost lifted straight from Wikipedia. From Wikipedia: "Although the JVM was primarily aimed at running compiled Java programs, many other languages can now run on top of it." So, as far as I can tell from what's quoted, there's not much wrong with what was said. Please clarify.

Also, isn't Clojure a programming language? Does Wikipedia also lie here? If it's not, then what is it?

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