C# as a language has radically evolved across the various numbered releases, and Microsoft did not even shy in changing VB into VB.NET, that is so much a different animal that VB 6 was. If they could do it, then Java has surely moved at snail's pace. They have never lacked in tooling space, albeit a very limited and paid choice of Visual Studio tools, and component developers have always grown under it.
Java carries a legacy shadow of bureaucracy of the likes of Sun and IBM, who are happy running their ever more legacy operating systems and applications on JDK 1.3.x to JDK 1.4.x, who in turn have clients belonging to industries like banks and financial institutions. These institutions are very reluctant to change and once a system is set working and stabilizes, it becomes a full-fledged project, even to migrate from a "point" version of java to an another. Microsoft hired sometime back, Simon Peyton Jones, a Haskell pioneer, who supposedly is also behind F# [though, I am not sure 100% about this piece]. Another legend with them is Anders Hejlsberg, who is behind the C# language. He was the one who got Delphi to be a successor to Turbo Pascal at Borland. Now, Neil Gafter is with them. Boo hoo hoo! ;( Regards On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Michael Neale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > On Sep 27, 10:45 am, Jeremy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > At google he was working on an app, calendar I believe. He seems like > > the type of guy to work more in the area of advancing languages, > > tools, etc. He'll get a hell of a lot more done in the microsoft > > world than Java. You can only bang your head against the wall for so > > long before it starts to hurt. > > Yes that is why it is disappointing - I mean good for him personally, > but a tragedy that it has to come to this. The leadership around the > java language spec is failing, or failed long ago... > > > -- Amarjeet Singh Phone: +91-98712-76661 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
