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		nirav on Nov 30, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yammer moving from Scala to Java It is interesting to see how start-ups (twitter, forsquare and now yammer) adopting or dropping programming languages rains hailstorm on twitter, HN and blogosphere. As a serious PL designer, start-ups seem to be the prime market to target your language.

trimbo on Nov 30, 2011 [–]

Same goes for the nouveau databases. It's going to be hard to get traction in an enterprise that can already afford and/or has purchased Oracle.

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