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Not just Oracle, Google dumping AJAX as well

No ones experience or education in computer science is relevant beyond the last three years. Do you not agree? It is like sailing. The vessels are so much faster today that a new skill set is required.

Because it takes time to unlearn just as it takes time to learn, virgins - those with no education or experiece - are often better.

I love telling this story of TP52s.

The TP52s are the last in a long and failed experiment involving fixed fin with bulb sailboat design. The US sailors on the east coast were the last to recognize the failure and all of the knowledge from the prior design efforts (the vested interests) went into TP52 design in spite of International Standards set in 1998 that had already obsoleted them.

In 2002 the US representatives stormed out of a commitee in protest of what anyone who paid attention in 1998 already knew. One of those representatives was a fellow named Honey. This guy raced the Volvo 70s that make TP52s look like ships for fools. Old dogs can retrain is the lesson. The lesson from the story goes beyond that however.

US sailors are not well respected Internationally. This is because they compete at a low level against others with skills appropriate for failed experimental sailboat designs; where as the rest of the world has moved to better designs and the new style of sailing. And they tell those that better them that they are stupid.

We need not see US computer scientists so poorly respected Internationally. A lot of vested interest went into AJAX, just like went into TP52s. Both can be viewed as decade old technology, hardly new and hardly worthy of spending much time with. AJAX is not the future of software design any more than TP52s are the future of sailboat design. The fix fin bulb keel experiment and the Microsoft PC experiment are over.

Frank L. Mighetto CCP

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