On Sep 1, 3:44 pm, Wildam Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > I am still faster in delivering a project written in VB for many > cases, although there are many good and better paradigms for me using > Java. So I really like more programming in Java but this does not mean > that it helps the customer a lot who maybe is not interesting in > long-term-vision of ROI.
After ten years as a Java programmer, I am in pretty much the same position. The spec of almost every program that I write can be summed up in four words; "Show me the data!". Personally, there are no language features included or missing (such as closures or microwaved genetics or whatever) that cause me problems that I am aware of. For me, Java's core weakness (the elephant in the room) has been it's more or less complete inability to produce a user interface that is anything other than pug-ugly. AWT was a short lived stop gap that was soon replaced with the extraordinarily complex Swing. That would have been fine if Swing was ever built upon and developed but, like pretty much all the components of Java, version 1.0 was added in and then abandoned. As a result, you need a degree in computer science and ten years experience to get so much as a radio button onto the screen in the right place, using Java. How many times does Steve Jobs have to say its all about the user experience before anyone outside Apple notices? Java 7 isn't going to help Java because it only adresses software developers' issues not software users'. Vince. -- 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.
