retard wrote:
I only meant that the widespead adoption of Java shows how the public at
large cares very little about the performance issues you mentioned Java
is one of the most widely used languages and it's also successful in many
fields. Things could be better from programming language theory's point
of view, but the business world is more interesting in profits and the
large pool of Java coders has given better benefits than more expressive
languages. I don't think that says anything against my notes about
algebraic data types.
Choice of a language has numerous factors, so you cannot dismiss one factor
because the other factors still make it an attractive choice.
For example:
"the widespread adoption of horses shows how the public at large cares very
little about the cars you mentioned."
