Karmona`s Pragmatic Blog

As I posted when I just started this blog - Almost 2 month ago I have decided to leave a promising (& cozy) career @ Mercury to join a challenging new-born start-up… called Semingo.

This was an offer I couldn’t refused…

Semingo is a venture-backed internet startup developing cutting-edge web application in the domain of Internet Search and Meta Social Networks.

It is more challenging, inspiring, interesting and exciting than I expected, imagined or I can put into words so you will have to join to understand… We are looking for top-notch algorithm researchers, .Net coders, mySQL DBAs, “Hackers”, QA experts and out-of-the-box thinkers… to join our unique development team (e.g. Pitz, Boo and Gabel)

Stay tuned (…)

Before getting into the Java vs. Net battle lets start with some other options ;-)

If you like challenges then you must try the brainfuck language which was created by Urban Dominik Muller and noted for its extreme minimalism - 240 bytes compiler download here

e.g. you can easily print “Hello World!” and a newline to the screen with the line below:

++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<-]>++.>+.+++++++..+++.>++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.——.——–.>+.>.

If you favor comments then you might consider using CPL which was created out of a need for advance commenting features, not found in any other existing programming language (e.g. nested comments…) @ http://sourceforge.net/projects/c-p-l/So…

Without copy-pasting a word - I think the best references to the Java vs. Net debate are:

• http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/java/news/farley_0800.html
• http://www.adtmag.com/print.aspx?id=10993
• & nothing like a good flammable Slashdot discussion to get under-the-hood of this debate…

…Personally, after many years of Java-Java; I really like .Net-ing for the past year… especially after watching Steve Balmer, “Developers dance” @ http://youtube.com/watch?v=NSIMeRtVebM