1. Primitives, which aren't objects 2. Static methods, which aren't object-oriented 3. Nothing even closely resembling multiple inheritance 4. Lambdas (Java 8 doesn't count, it hasn't been released) 5. Non-interactive. Not even a REPL; you must go through full static compilation cycles just to explore ideas
On 25 February 2014 21:44, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Kevin Wright > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Discussions of age won't help much here... >> >> Just consider that Java is still trying to catch up to Smalltalk in >> oh-so-many ways >> > Please list the ways, because I can't see even one way in which Java is > behind Smalltalk, even being very generous (I used to write code on ST80 > but I would probably extend my claim to more modern Smalltalks such as > Squeak or Dolphin). > > -- > Cédric > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
