There have been plenty of fruitful discussions about Java on this site
I searched and didn't find any. Could you please point me to them? Note, I'm looking for posts that specifically address perceived problems people have with Java. Thanks.
The only issue Java is suffering from are maybe performance, flaky implementation accross the board, and lack of shrinkwrap products (or so some perlmonger things) .
Seeing as the complaints I was referring to are coming from Perl people, performance and lack of shrinkwrap products are probably of limited concern to them. They are valid when comparing to C/C++ and others though, so thanks for mentioning it. As for flaky implmentation, that isn't really the language specification, but does affect overall impression and, as such, is again a valid point.
why do you throw out disclaimers? huh Anynymous Coward?
Obviously you have a problem with the tone of my post. It was written rather hastily and I didn't carefully analyze how every sentence contributed to the overall impression. My apologies for this, but please try and stick to discussing the main points I brought up if at allpossible, thanks.
As for the disclaimers, I was trying to avoid projecting a bias as to which language I think is better and trying to get others to set aside their biases. I commonly use Perl, Java, Ruby, Python, C, and C++ interchangeably, and enjoy programming in all of them. What I'm trying to do here is get a feel for people's major complaints about Java, as I see a lot of complaints about it on this site.
Thank you, and sorry for any misunderstanding :)
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I forgot how fun it can be to scour perlmonks. All of the following links are interesting, and at least half are relevant, and half are missing ;)
MJD says you
can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!
I run a Win32 PPM
repository for perl 5.6x+5.8x. I take requests.
** The Third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.
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Thanks for the list, I just read them all. I felt like Neo learning kung-fu, with the eyes flickering and everything ;-)
Your description was very accurate, while many weren't directly relevant to Java issues, they were still very interesting. Here's my abridged list of some of the better ones:
I don't believe any of these showed up when I searched for 'Java' earlier (possibly the punctuation interferes with the results). Also - do the categorized questions and answers appear in the search results?
As a final note, this post is something worth thinking about as well. Thanks again for the links :)
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