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		vegai on Oct 12, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Wave and the mythical man month >Billions of successful projects run on Java. I will give you billion dollars if you can prove that. My personal guess (using my personal metrics) is that there are 10^3 to 10^4 successful Java projects and 10^9 failed ones.

maximusprime on Oct 12, 2011 [–]

In any event, the failed ones don't mean anything useful.

Successful ones mean "You can succeed using this". The failed ones mean "This failed, could have been for a ton of reasons".

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