> Java was a language looking for a purpose.
Java was a language designed for set top boxes
Best wishes / Mejores deseos / Meilleurs vœux
Ian ...
On Wednesday, July 19, 2023 at 03:24:34 PM GMT+2, Rick Troth
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 7/18/23 19:30, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>> *Java was a language looking for a purpose, then found popularity
>> when the web was young
>
> Java? Or Javascript?
Java
JavaSCRIPT was originally called ECMAScript. I don't know its history,
but pretty sure it was designed from the get-go to be embedded. (See
also: Tcl)
Java was a language looking for a purpose. It became viable during the
era when the web was new.
The language itself is pretty good. (And FWIW does not have macros.) But
it has some quirky packaging concepts (see also: Ada) and my real beef
against it is the need for the JVM. It is difficult, and it's
particularly "heavy", to call native from Java. It's impossible to call
Java from native.
-- R; <><
