"So it looks like my analysis splits out to languages holding widespread dominance (Java and C/C++); languages that were once 'hot' (Perl, PHP, VB) but never made it to full dominance and may already be on their way out; and languages that are now 'hot' (C#, Javascript, Ruby, Python, Delphi)."
"Jack Shirazi, the author of the successful book 'Java Performance Tuning', discusses some basic considerations for you to mull over if you are ever thinking about writing your technical book."
"Of course I did the usual things, you know, you doodle, you see if you can pick your nose without anyone noticing, you look intently at the person standing up in front delivering the current talk, and try to imagine them with all their clothes off."
"The most important task of a threadpool is to throttle the number of simultaneous tasks running on your system, not to allow you to conveniently run multiple things at once."
