In article <pine.lnx.4.64.0903210534130.6...@tau.ceti.pl>, Tomasz Rola <rto...@ceti.com.pl> wrote: >On Sat, 20 Mar 2009, Aahz wrote: >> >> Taking C++ and turning it into a VM model does not exactly strike me >> as particularly good use of resources. > >It doesn't strike me either. But resources are not the only dimension of >judging the language, you know.
You misunderstand me: I was talking about the resources (people and money) used to create Java. >But, as I said, Java had some weight in the past (and some promises have >been made about its future and not kept). I felt that dismissing it "after >six minutes" might have been a little bit unfair. You should have done it >after a week. > >:-). Java is yet another language with heavy static typing and an object-oriented focus. What should have caused me to waste more time before dismissing it? -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Programming language design is not a rational science. Most reasoning about it is at best rationalization of gut feelings, and at worst plain wrong." --GvR, python-ideas, 2009-3-1 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
