On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:54:01PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> My big beef with Java is that having *forced* you into an OO model
> (something recognised both by Perl and C++ as being bad), its own
> language primitives aren't in fact objects.
It doesn't force you to be OO. I've written procedural code in Java, the
only object instantiation I did was the program itself, and some strings
and the numeric objects you need to do casting from one type to another.
> And the Write Once - Run Everywhere, is more like Write Once, Debug
> Everywhere.
To be fair, that is a feature of the broken JVMs rather than of the
language. I don't tend to have many problems with it, but then my targets
are Linux and Solaris. I do not give a flying fuck about whether stuff
works on Mac or Windows, cos for stuff at work I'll always be targetting
'nix, and for my own stuff I'll be targetting *me*. And I am a Unix-only
environment for anything that matters.
It's quite a long time since I wrote any graphical Java, but I remember that
being flaky on Linux, but am told that it has got a lot better now that Sun
have released their own JVM for Linux and there's no need to rely on dodgy
third-party hacks.
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