Apropos insufficient and verbose official standards; Rob Pike points fingers at C++ and Java at this years OSCON: http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/google-executive-frustrated-java-c-complexity-375
On Jul 23, 9:19 pm, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > But... is it good thing? Android, by being incompatible with the Java > > ecosystem, is increasing fragmentation in the world. This will lead > > to greater entropy and the eventual heat death of the universe. We > > must stop this and get Android to be compatible with Java to decrease > > the entropy in the world and save humanity. > > Ultimately it all comes down to whether you want a stale official > standard or a vibrant de-facto standard. I say let's push the state of > art a bit within the Java space, it's long needed. Sun could've done > this themselves a long time ago. Why is it it's now Google utilizing > "Java" for web client development (GWT), hosted-server development > (GAE) and on mobile devices (Android)? > > As to the entropy, that a function of time and will always be there; > the difference is how you deal with it, whether you swallow a jagged > pill occasionally or have a bulldozer push the problems ahead of you. > Or to put it another way, if Google had used Ecma-334 (C#) for their > stuff, would Java (TM) be in a better state now? > > /Casper -- 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.
