On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And what is the value proposition of Java over any other language? It has > no unique features. It's development is lagging. It's developers are > defecting (again, look at the statistics). It's fragmenting just like Unix > so it certainly isn't as portable as claimed. >
Java is clear and understandable, with clean semantics so that you can refactor the code without breaking it and IDE knows its way around the codebase, has garbage collection, a bit of functional programming stance, is fast enough, has decent infrastructure and everybody knows it. A bit verbose, but I haven't found it to be a serious problem. If you don't need fragmented odd parts, it's sufficiently portable. If you decide between .NET and Java, tradeoff is more subtle, as they are essentially the same thing, except that .NET is not open and more bloated -- which is more important for a particular project? I guess openness outweighs is for an open-source project. -- Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=103754539-40ed26 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
