On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Nicholas Leippe <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Grant Shipley <[email protected]> > wrote: > > A friend of mine posted something relevant last week: > > > > I have come to realize after 15 years in technology, if people say the > hate > > something, they really mean the don't understand it. > > Or, maybe they finally do. > Some tools truly deserve some hate--which may not be apparent until > you understand them on a deeper level. > > I have to agree that you can hate a language. Like Levi said, it's personal preference. Using a language is an important factor, but not the only factor. The ecosystem around the language also plays a role. I've used Java for several years at least part time in my work. It's ranged from high performance SaaS to smartphone applications. While I don't have anything against the language itself (syntax, VM, GC, etc.), it has a bad taste in my open-source mouth as I've followed the news over the past year. Things like that could lead one to "hate" a language. It doesn't mean I'm a mindless twit and assuming that may be short-sighted. On the other side of the coin though, it doesn't mean that people who use it are idiots either. Java certainly has its merits and that's why so many people are using it. Plus, I recognize that I'm in a minority of people who judge a language based on it's open-source morals. :) /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
