Now there's a way to make oneself marketable in the "street corner programmer" business.
Actually Java is the primary language used to teach object oriented programming concepts today. (At the university level)
No. Every sysadmin I've ever met, and every system engineer I've ever met for that matter, hates Java. "Developers" love it. It's the darling of "development".
What in your mind distinguishes a system engineer from a system admin? Also keep in mind that "developers" are the targeted consumers of programming languages.
I'm thinking that Java failed to deliver on the promise of "write once, run anywhere". Java programs developed on Windows do not, up to this present day, work on Solaris; it's a revision dependency hell - for example, Java 1.6.whatever broke Azaureus; Legato NetWorker front end busts with Java 1.5.0 even though it says it should work and "to ignore the warning".
For the most part it did deliver. Can you name something that comes closer?
Java is SLOW. Look at the Tomcat JSP mess. The whole thing is a disgrace.
Please explain. From what I have experienced, the first time a piece of code executes, it is slower. Once it has run once it seems to run at native speed.
- Except with GCJ, Java can't be compiled to machine code, and even with GCJ, the process is complex
So what language are you in love with that is compiled?
- Java is COMPLICATED even for the simplest of tasks
Not to an experienced Java programmer. (The same thing could be said about Solaris by a Windows user). What language do you prefer for simple tasks? sh?
"public static void main" - was "papa Gosling" on LSD taking a "trip" when he was designing the syntax of the language?
Syntax was based on making a platform agnostic version of C++ with a few added goodies like garbage collection.
Bonus: looky looky, Java needs TONS of RAM.
False statement.
So, if that's me "laying an egg in public", yes, that's right, I'll stand up and be the first to say it publicly, and hopefully, someday I'll get the opportunity to say it right to Gosling's face: Java sucks dead bunnies through a bent straw sideways!
Ok, what programming language do you use, that is so much better than Java. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
