Marketing helped (especially to schools/universities), as did garbage collection and low level concurrency primitives out of the box, faster compilation, saner error messages, and a rich standard library available for free (including AWT).
But I don't believe that anybody every thought "ooh, primitives, I must use this language because it'll be so fast". Not when it was (then) interpreted, and therefore slow for other reasons. The only real benefit of primitives was an apparent passing familiarity to C++ devs. On 12 March 2012 18:53, Josh Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > > Also, I really don't buy for a second that marketing was important to > Java's > > success. The developer community and the growing infatuation for live web > > pages at the time is what made Java cross the gap, not Sun's (fairly > feeble, > > for people who remember these days) marketing. > > I don't recall it being that feeble. Seemed that Sun took great > efforts to get Java in many college intro courses. > > -- > 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 mail: [email protected] gtalk / msn : [email protected] quora: http://www.quora.com/Kevin-Wright google+: http://gplus.to/thecoda <[email protected]> twitter: @thecoda vibe / skype: kev.lee.wright steam: kev_lee_wright "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.
