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- From: j-jahnke@uchicago.edu (Jerome Jahnke)
- Subject: Re: Young programmers read me.
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- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 01:17:39 GMT
-
- In article
- <Pine.ULT.3.91.960417144153.6082D-100000@kittyhawk.aa.washington.edu>,
- David Matiskella <matiskel@aa.washington.edu> wrote:
-
- > It will be interesting to see how JAVA does.
- > Somebody I am sure will write a native JAVA compiler eventually.
-
- I am sorry Java as a language is just to painful to work in, it's only
- advantge is the fact it is NOT compiled for any machine. It will run
- nicely on my Mac, on my NT machine, or my Solaris machine. That is what is
- cool and useful about Java, if they forced me to work all day in Java I am
- sure I would be selling used cars instead.
-
- What problems you say? Well the biggest one that comes to mind that is
- driving me nuts of late is the fact that your data types are second class
- citizens in the eyes of Java, which makes for all kinds of problems,
- something as simple as making a copy of a class.
-
- Multiple inheritence is so crippled, why bother include it at all. This
- interface idea? Jeeze, what were they smoking when they though this was a
- good idea?
-
- It is a painful language to use, it offers no OO Advantages, and is a
- pretty poor languge in general, BUT the hype has managed to fool lots of
- people, and, well the VM and AWT are great ideas. It is too bad they come
- connected to the millstone that is Java.
-
- Jer,
-
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- Jerome Jahnke
- BSD Academic Computing
- University of Chicago
- j-jahnke@uchicago.edu
-