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By: Paulo Matos - Java Universities are Mediocre at Best!

Paulo Matos - Java Universities are Mediocre at Best! — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:13:34 +0000

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Java Universities are Mediocre at Best! « The Minority Blog — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:08:25 +0000

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By: RhettWilson

RhettWilson — Tue, 01 May 2007 21:12:40 +0000

Hey,
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Rhett

By: JGuru

JGuru — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:07:13 +0000

Java has some strong points than C or C++!! First of all it’s simple , easy to learn (devoid of pointers) & so easy for even a
10th std student can understand it very well. That’s not the case with C/C++!!! With C/C++ most of the code the students memorise
& vomit it in exams!!!
For developers , Java is very easy to learn since there are lots of similarities between C/C++ and Java.So the learning curve is
not steep. I develop Java applications for the Enterprise using Swing & also J2EE. Both of them work very well across platforms.
C/C++ is not universally portable!!! While Java is cross-platform. ie., you write once, run it anywhere. That’s not the case with
other languages. C# is just a farce. Microsoft created a clone of Java with all Java-like features. But still C# will run only on
Windows. Because Microsoft’s sole empire depends on Windows O.S & applications. What a big joke that is!! There are already languages
like C/C++ that can run in Windows!!

By: Nick Thomas

Nick Thomas — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:29:13 +0000

I write open source programs that are supposed to run on any flavor of UNIX, and occasionally Windows. If I’m writing a library, I use C, because it’s the lowest common denominator, and can be used from almost any language. If I’m writing a user-level program, I use C++, because it’s universally avaliable, and, unlike Java, it doesn’t require a runtime of truly stupendous size to run. Neither C nor C++ is obsolete. What other language has a 5MB runtime environment, while still being fast, portable[1], and universally avaliable?

[1] Whatever everyone says these days, it is *not* hard to write portable C/C++. ANSI C provides a great basis for writing simple, portable applications. There is a great wealth of open source libraries that are widely avaliable on UNIX, and are portable to Windows, for doing things that aren’t covered by ANSI C. There are good development tools, too; the standard development toolchain consisting of the standard UNIX tools, autoconf, automake, gcc, gdb, a revision control system, and a good text editor are, in my opinion, more than sufficient for developing and deploying open source applications in comfort and style.

By: tabrez

tabrez — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:14:34 +0000

> Janis wrote:
> But C++ in this day and age? Who are you kidding?

Hmmm. That was also the question in one of the quotes.

Sun announces C/C++ support for NetBeans IDE March 23, 2006
Why support an old, legacy, complex and idiotic language in 2006??

@Java: the title clearly suggests that it was about quotations about Java language. Ofcourse there are many enjoyable(more so?) quotes about the C++ language too. Doing a balancing act for every language that there is was not the purpose of the post.

Alan: Yeah, Haskell especially is very expressive with a great static type system, but I don’t see it too ahead in the popularity chart, so perhaps little unqualified for any kind of language bashing ;) Like Stroustrup had said: “There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses.” :)

Rick, I agree. Stepanov’s interview is truly insightful. I recommend it to everyone irrespective of what programming languages they have personal biases for.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:06:20 +0000

Stepanov’s interview is great. There’s nothing intellectually interesting in Java. I guess Guy Steele’s “We were targetting the C++ developers, and got them halfway to Lisp” didn’t work on Stepanov. Java being halfway to Lisp is pretty funny on it’s own. Without the investment into top-notch IDEs, Java would be incredibly painful to develop in. Sun should either write something like Scala or Nemerle themselves, or help out with Scala or Nice. That way you can still leverage the Java legacy code.