From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2008-07-05T08:22:41+09:00
Subject: Re: from ruby/RoR to Java (framework unknown) :(

On 4 Jul 2008, at 23:26, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Bill Kelly wrote:
>> From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@cesmail.net>
>>>
>>>> * Or not.  Some folks will have ulterior motives for choosing one  
>>>> tool over another, but you should start be giving people the  
>>>> benefit of the doubt.
>>>
>>> Or better yet, just say, "They may be right," and proceed with the  
>>> accepted environments and projects.
>> Wait... have you ever actually endured much Java programming?  <grin>
>> HaHaOnlySerious,
>> Bill
>
> I once picked Java for a queuing theory model. I tried Visual Basic,  
> Perl and Java on some simple linear algebra, and Java was the  
> fastest. This was *long* ago -- before "Java 2"! So I wrote it in  
> Java. The damn thing is still sitting in a CM repository somewhere.  
> Nobody used it, because Java wasn't on the "approved list". If I had  
> written it in C, I would have been a hero. Ah, well. :)
>
> That's the only Java code I ever wrote, but the language still  
> appeals to me as a language. What I haven't endured is all of the  
> frameworks, APIs, XML, etc. that have "evolved" around Java.

It started out a pretty sweet language: simple to learn and less  
fiddly that C++. Unfortunately it's become progressively less friendly  
with each successive release, not least because of the proliferation  
of standard libraries. If Sun had started out with something a bit  
more like Groovy I might even have remained a fan :)


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
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