2011/4/13 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> > > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Mark Volkmann > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On one of Gavin's slides he says: >> >> "Java is joined at the hip with XML, and this hurts almost every Java >> developer almost every day" >> >> Really? In what way is Java joined at the hip with XML? >> > > Yes, I was a bit puzzled by that as well. Scala is much more "joined at the > hip" with XML because of its support for XML literals, but I don't see > anything intrinsic to Java that makes it tied to XML. > > My thoughts exactly.
> Another thing that puzzles me about Ceylon is the timing: Gavin says that > he and his team have been working on it for two years and yet they don't > even have a prototype to show. Reaching such a stage should take a few > months to one programmer. > > Couldn't agree more, it all seems very odd to have taken so long, and there's definitely a "me too" air to the whole thing. I find it very hard to believe that they weren't aware of other languages already available that achieve the same goals - except maybe that brief teasing mention of a module system. > -- > Cédric > > > -- > 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. > -- Kevin Wright gtalk / msn : [email protected] <[email protected]>mail: [email protected] vibe / skype: kev.lee.wright quora: http://www.quora.com/Kevin-Wright twitter: @thecoda "My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger" ~ Dijkstra -- 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.
