> There's a long debate on the authenticity of that item and > InternalMemos in > general on SlashDot.com .
Understandable, however the particular issues of backward-compatibility and memory footprint are still valid in my opinion (at least compared to many other competing languages). > And the criticisms of Java aren't really that vicious if you read > it closely. I actually like Java as a language, however I believe that in it's current state, it is still having enormous 'growing pains'. For those of you who have been watching the perl6-* lists, this is an ongoing concern with that language (or any language, for that matter). Backward-compatibility will be addressed through the use of conversion systems (p5-to-p6 utilities). Memory footprint, speed, and modularity also are serious concerns with perl6, and are being/have been addressed. On the whole, I think that Java is an EXCELLENT language with a mediocre implementation. Perhaps someday Sun will smarten-up and look to the people who use it to help implement it, like they did with StarOffice (parrot may very well have a full Java language interface). I'll be very happy to use it when it does. Grant M. _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
