I've noticed in the short time I've been reading this board that there's a lot of java bashing, so I was wondering why people actually think it is so bad. I'm no java fan, but I've used it for some stuff before and it didn't seem terrible to me. An argument used to be that it runs slow as a guro-fied loli, but they've improved a lot in that aspect.
Please give good reasons, rather than stuff like "it's for certified professional consultants" or whatever you guys say.
I heard the dot operator in the new java has been replaced by 8=================D and variable names can't be less than 50 characters (or the bus will explode)
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Anonymous2009-11-14 22:26
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-- Linus Torvalds, inventor of the java.net programmer's toolkit.
Go is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if the choice of Java were to do *nothing* but keep the Go programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use Java.
-- Linus Torvalds
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Anonymous2009-11-15 8:16
>>170
After reading the original rant, I gotta say, Linus would fit right in here at /prog/, especially because he opens it up with: *YOU* are full of bullshit.
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Anonymous2009-11-15 8:48
>>171
That is Linus's way of saying OK NOW YOU FUQIN ANGERED AN EXPERT PROGRAMMER
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Anonymous2009-11-15 9:31
More Linus dick-swinging fun.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57961 The very fact that you come in as a newbie, point to some absolutely *trivial* patches, and use that as an argument for a language that the original author doesn't like, is a sign of you being a person who should be disabused on any idiotic notions as soon as possible.
Oh snap!
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Anonymous2009-11-15 9:38
>>171
Oh yes, this reminds me how I was trolling the anusman in the C tips thread.
>>181
What was the original email that was sent to Gerald Sussman? The one that started the unscientific and ultimately destructive meme.
We need to do the same for more people. RMS, Abelson, Linus Torvalds, even [spoiler]Mat Dickie[spoiler]. We'll have a /prog/ celebrity thread. Bring them all to our wonderful pit of cancer.