I've always thought of Java as the C of the JVM because it's the mother language. It's the language that most libs are written in and it the set of APIs that all other languages have access to. In the same way that all Unix languages can call down to the common C based libraries. It is also the language which is (currently) most optimized on the JVM, and the one that has the most widely spread knowledge throughout the programming world.
I still stand by my statement: 20 years from now there will still be plenty of Java code in the world. 50 years from now we will still be running systems that have JVM bytecode underneath. - Josh On Jul 26, 2009, at 11:53 PM, Viktor Klang wrote: > Calling something "like C++" is a terrible thing to do. > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Frederic Simon <[email protected] > > wrote: > I think Java is more like C, and Scala like C++: > - C is the base workhorse of low level modules (close to the metal - > all the metal there is) > - Java is the base workhorse of the JVM (close to the bytecode) > - C++ is an OO layer on top of C (that will disappear slowly as an > historical aberration) > - Scala is a functional layer on top of Java/JVM (that wil .... :) > > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected] > > wrote: > > I think your scala hobbying is leaking through a bit too much, Dick. > > Okay, scala might be an interesting take on a future java. In what > possible universe does this mean 'let's just leave java as is and do > no more work on it' is the appropriate thing to do? You yourself > compared java to C++ which is still adding major new features, and > it's got a loooong headstart on java. > > > > > > -- > JFrog Ltd > 5 Habonim st., P.O.Box 8187 > Netanya, Israel 42504. > Tel: +972 9 8941444 > Fax: +972 9 8659977 > http://www.jfrog.org/ > http://freddy33.blogspot.com/ > http://nothingisinfinite.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > -- > Viktor Klang > > Rogue Scala-head > > Blog: klangism.blogspot.com > Twttr: viktorklang > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
