On 7/19/23 09:29, Ian Worthington wrote:
Java was a language looking for a purpose.
Java was a language designed for set top boxes
That is correct.
Java was created by James Gosling and others, then at Sun.
My jab is because, at the time, there were no specific set-top boxes or
similar appliances on the Java development team's radar (that they were
talking about). So one of the first Java applications was a web browser.
It was an effective demonstration.
My beef against it is, because of the nature of JVM and the fact that in
the Java ecosystem nobody compiles to native, it is difficult to
interface with other languages.
Java as a language is actually very good, and very "up stack" (compared
to C or HLASM or any other assembler). It would offer a good
complementary relationship with "limbo languages" if it interfaced better.
-- R; <><
