The author really has no clue. He also doe snot understand what static and dynamic typing means and that it is orthogonal to weak and strong typing. Or that whether you have GC or not is not necessarily dependent on the language. You can attach a GC to C and have it working reasonably well.

This article was written by an incompetent wannabe.

You will get no argument from me on that.

Yes, this joker probably meant "has a more complex type system".

You really do not get it, I agree. This metric is useless. It follows the definition of a metric, true, but it has no reasonable practical use, hence it does not deserve any special distinction, like being given a name. That is what is fake here.

The ire is because quite a few people cannot distinguish fake TV science and engineering from the real thing anymore. This "metric" is a high-quality fake and completely useless.

Really, you do not understand what makes swap slow or fast. Go play somewhere else.

Scala is too advanced for most of the mediocre crowd calling itself "programmers" these days.

Erlang is pretty cool for the intended application scenarios. It is not really a general-purpose language. If you need, for example, excellent crash-proofness, updates to running code and massive multi-threading, Erlang is what you want to use. (Ever tried to run 1000 threads in Java? I know people who did, for this Java is a completely unusable toy...)

The second problem is that Erlang is decidedly experts-only. Real understanding of advanced programing concepts is mandatory. Don't even think about doing anything with Erlang unless you have top-notch people. (These people do not need to already know Erlang before though.) Of course, one top-notch coder is more productive than 10 of the typical mediocre ones.

It is not. Strong typing can be implemented by attaching types to data. Static typing always attaches types to variables and they are fixed. But strong typing can also mean type-less variables, but no implicit conversion of values. For example, Perl is weakly typed, but that is because it will, for example, happily convert a string to a number all on its own. Python, on the other hand, is strongly typed, despite its variables not having types just like in Perl. The values assigned to the variables in Python have types and all type conversions have to be explicitly requested by the programmer.

With such a stupid article, it is really no surprise the author gets basic things wrong.

Next year, unless you are at the bottom of the skill and payment pyramid, you will need C and derivatives (C++, Objective C) and maybe Python or Perl.

How about this. Make VMS on Atom->i5 free and charge for VMS on i7->up on Intel and do the same with AMD. Make it free on the lower end chips and more expensive on the workstation and server chips.
You might even get some interesting apps made for it and maybe even pickup some support contracts.
BTW I know the i7 is often used on high end systems besides workstations. If you wanted you could slice it up by socket 1150 being free and socket 2011 and up being pay.
The idea is to get the OS out for more people to use. Frankly I bet HP could still be making money on Alpha and PA-RISC systems if they had wanted too.

And these comments have pushed me right of the maybe legalizing pot is ok into the not a chance.
You all are nuts.
The argument that it is no worse than tobacco is at best amusing since tobacco is a terrible drug.

Actually it is more a warning about what happens when growth slows.
As long as people are getting richer everything is good. It is only when thing slow down that the problem start.
Greed is satisfied when it is fed, put in on a diet and it gets ugly.

Changing workstations is a huge change, but at least you're not tossing the infrastructure.

Tossing both the enduser side AND the infrastructure side all at once is a surefire recipe for disaster, pissed off end users, and IT staffing changes.

Noone except a kickstarter is trying to copy it. I was a blackberry holdout too, but the keyboard just isnt worth all the stuff you have to give up to get it.

Im now on a Nexus 5 and theres no looking back. If I really need to compose an email, Swiftkey or voice dictation both fill in that gap adequately. I did my spring semester notes on the Nexus and while it wasnt QUITE as nice as the blackberry, I can still "touch-type" with ~80% accuracy, and the prediction fills in the rest.

There are a lot of areas where its better, too, like having actual directional keys to position the cursor (something that blackberry lacked).