My opinion: I refuse to believe a language named after a snake could ever be better than a language named after a precious gemstone. Of course, we're all using a language once named after a tree and now named after a beverage.
What happened to acronyms and simple letters? In the future, all languages will be named<http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/zombie.html>after internet memes </>. - Josh On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dick Wall <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Christian > > Yes - it does appear it was a bad week for that doesn't it. I will say > again that the listener feedback items in particular call for our > opinions and these are mine - if other people disagree with them > that's fine, but they are my opinions and when asked for them I will > share them. In particular, which two programming languages would you > chose is indeed a very personal choice. I am guessing that CKoener > probably wouldn't chose Python in his languages either :-). > > I haven't learned ruby in depth primarily because I don't feel a need > to. Python always filled in the kind of things I would use ruby for, > and as I say I like the cleanliness of it. On the times I have delved > into ruby it doesn't seem to do anything that I can't do using python, > and I don't like the syntax as much. That's an opinion folks and it's > all mine, but it's at least honest. > > I will point out that I am not sorry for having opinions, nor am I > sorry that others disagree with them :-). Everyone is entitled to > their own. > > Cheers > > dick > > On Jul 24, 3:15 pm, Christian Catchpole <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Poor Dick. I find that just about everyone says something I disagree > > with every time they open their mouths. :) > > > > But it's an interesting discussion. I was talking with some friends > > who are in the PHP kind of space. I was explaining how Java has > > probably the most advanced JIT ever and was explaining why it's so > > freekin' fast these days. This didn't seem to matter to them. Hello > > world still used 30 meg to start. And the criticism was that people > > generally write crap Java apps. > > > > We can't forget that many people experience java command on the > > console and large memory footprint (larger than what they expect for > > the app in question), applets and slow (historically) Swing interfaces > > that look weird. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
