Two of the most widely used development languages, Java and XML, could soon be integrated into a single universal language, according to Professor Peter Murray-Rust of Nottingham University. Murray-Rust is calling on vendors to help in the adoption...
Jeff Jones, senior program manager at IBM Data Management Solutions, said the Intelligent Miner Scoring services enable companies to mine data for predictive modeling, such as customer buying behavior.
In October last year, Borland acquired TogetherSoft, which makes application modelling and design tools. The California-based software maker also sells programming languages and tools for the Java language.
But sometimes, the user interface designers forget to screen out technology names, and that's what has happened with Java. Consumers don't care about programming languages. They have no idea that it's the name of a programming language.
The whole world has settled on a single modelling language to describe the innards of applications, known as the Unified Modelling Language (UML). Later, software tools such as software through pictures started a fashion in using models to...
Unfortunately, Java has acquired many of the unfavourable characteristics of its predecessors, he added. They weren't interested in adding language features to compete with other languages, [choosing instead] the simple way, and not the way we've...