I didn't say Java was bad, but I realize it's easy to do your own interpretation. So let me be a little more concrete, for a decade I was missing the Enum until it finally made it in. I've always been missing decimal literal and it probably will never make it in in spite of being such a common type in enterprise systems. More clear?
/Casper On 30 Sep., 18:03, Joshua Marinacci <jos...@marinacci.org> wrote: > On Sep 30, 2009, at 2:33 AM, Casper Bang wrote: > > > Java gained such massive adoption not because it was a particularly > > great language, but because it became a standard - managers love > > standards because it provides stability and security. > > I completely disagree. Java gained widespread adoption because it was > an excellent language. True, it was not a particularly *innovative* > language, and in fact that was the point. The developers of Java took > all of the great ideas from the previous 20 years, threw out all of > the crap that cause so many problems, leaving a quite elegant 80/20 > solution that has held up incredibly well for nearly two decades. > Java is definitely a great language. > > - J --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
