edward potter wrote:
Java seems to have a number of fits and starts over the last 10
years, but hanging on. Python can of course be used for all things web
based, and can also create full blown applications too. (bittorrent
for one), I'm still just a beginner.
Java is my language of choice for jobs that aren't a good fit for
PHP. Java is fast for numeric and symbol processing work -- better than
half the speed of FORTRAN or C, with the software engineering
advantages of objects, garbage collection and all that.
Last summer I wrote a sudoku solver in Java -- the program can end
up trying a large number of combinations if the puzzle is difficult, so
I wanted it to be in a language faster than PHP.
My son got two copies of "Chutes and Ladders" for Christmas, so
I've been interested in writing a Java program that plays a few billion
games and reports on the statistics.
I'm not a big fan of Python. I really got into JPython around
1999, but after wasting half a day tracking down a program that didn't
work right because of an invisible change in whitespace in a source file
I got back from someone who used a different text editor, I decided I'd
had enough.
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