> From: Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Behalf Of Richard Baker > > ... > > > > Java is the spawn of satan, the ultimate evil. > > > > Cambridge University's Computer Laboratory now teach Java as their > > introductory language. What do you think of that? (When I did my > > postgrad diploma there they taught us Modula-3 first, then ML, then C, > > Java and Prolog.) > > Java is also the most widely used programming language in the world. What > the heck is so evil about it?
I don't think so. Not by a wide margin. > > And why isn't anyone singing the praises of Python in this thread?! > > Even more important, why isn't anyone pointing out that the choice of > languages depends very much on the task at hand; Perl is similar but more > appropriate to smaller projects. Python makes sense for projects that need > to be finished quickly. Java makes sense for enterprise projects that need > to be deployed widely. Aside from Java's extremely bad design, no two Java virtually machines actually run Java programs the same way, which means write once, test everwhere (for every single code change). And then there are the different incompatible version, which create a worse kind of 'dll hell' scenerio from different programs which require different versions to work properly. > C and C++ make sense for commercial packaged > software. Postscript beats everything for page description. R is the > language of choice for statistics. > > What's more, Perl, Python and Java benefit greatly from OPC -- Other > Peoples' Code. > > Who else here ever learned Algol? And how about SPURT, the first language I > ever learned. That was Sperry-Univac machine language, in hexadecimal. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
