Alphonse Ogulla declaimed: > On Thursday 28 August 2003 11:16, you wrote: > > There is no such language which performs in all situations well. C is > > fast, but you have to code really careful and double-check your source. > > Erlang was designed for telephony tasks (message passing, ...). Prolog > > is superior in expert systems. Perl is real good for quick string hacks. > > Python scales better than Perl for larger projects and is good for rapid > > prototyping. C++ scales well in large-scale software designs which needs > > to be fast... > C, Erlang, Prolog, Perl, Python and C++ are all refered to in the above > paragraph. Java is conspicuouly not mentioned. I construe that to mean Java > is so much lacking in useful qualities to serve any practical purpose. > I love religious arguments. Java certainly has flaws: open source licensing issues, flawed I/O implementation, an obscenely large set of base classes. Nonetheless, Java taught me a lot about OOP by forcing me to use references instead of pointers, which certainly served a practical purpose from my POV.
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