O.k., I'm not trying to start another language flamefest... but Perl
advocates might be interested to know what Alexander Stepanov, the
creator of the C++ Standard Template Library has to say about Java:
[Java] keeps all the stuff that I never use in C++ -
inheritance, virtuals - OO gook - and removes the stuff that
I find useful....
[Java] has no intellectual value whatsoever.
The best way to judge a language is to look at the code written by
its proponents. Java is clearly an example of money oriented
programming (MOP). As the chief proponent of Java at SGI told me:
"Alex, you have to go where the money is." But I do not
particularly want to go where the money is - it usually does not
smell nice there.
>From a very interesting article on generic programming at
http://www.stlport.org/resources/StepanovUSA.html
--
John Porter
