Read - Eval - Print Loop

It's a way to use the programming language without having to write an entire program first.

@scottalanmiller said:

It's much like how COBOL and Fortran take quite a beating today. But they were breakthroughs at the time and were really important.

In the context of their time COBOL, FORTRAN, et al were important, but today they're lumbering proto-dinosaurs. It's more disturbing than anything else how much out there still uses it and should've been replaced long ago.

I was going to mention flash as well, and what I like is how flash is finally on its way out, and mostly only gets used now for video. We fail over to flash player for some of our older videos which are not re-encoded (we've been slowly re-encoding to something HTML5 friendly, but there are 2 million videos so it's taking a while) and also fail over if the person simply doesn't have HTML 5 video playing for whatever reason.

I am not going to take the time to read through the site rules as I do not even have an account, but I question if that can be done without the developers consent.

That would still put it back on the developer and I will simply not support a developer that does it. same as I no longer support Sun/Java products if at all possible.

Java has turned into a great server side product but a pretty pathetic client side one.

That Android uses Java as its programming platform is pretty surprising.

As long as the server side doesn't suffer the horrible security flaws that the desktop does - What difference does it make what the back end runs? I don't really want an answer, it's just a thought exercise.

@scottalanmiller said:

Nothing is more confusing than the "Go" language.

As in DO NOT PASS ?? lol