On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 05:57:23PM +0100, simendsjo wrote: > On Saturday, 23 February 2013 at 16:44:59 UTC, Nick Sabalausky > wrote: > (...) > >Anyone still using Java is just so last decade ;) > > I've managed to dodge Java all these years, but I just started a > college which teach Java. Even after using it only for a couple of > thousand lines of code, I understand the hatred.. Feels like I'm in > a straitjacket. Yes, it might be easy to learn, but damn it's > verbose!
That was my reaction too, when I first starting learning Java. And that is still my reaction today. It's not a *bad* language per se. In fact, a lot of it is quite ideal. Or rather, idealistic, should I say. Unfortunately, that makes it a pain to map to messy real-world situations -- you end up with a truckload of wrappers and incrediblyLongAndVerboseIdentifiers just so the language can remain "pure". As for being a straitjacketed language, this IOCCC entry says it best: http://www.ioccc.org/2005/chia/chia.c ;-) T -- He who sacrifices functionality for ease of use, loses both and deserves neither. -- Slashdotter