Not to fan the flames too much, but if you want to prefer Java over Perl, you must buy into the following paradigms: I believe these are the main axes along which Java differs from Perl. I might have missed one or two.

Any one of these points is a religious argument. Yes, I happen to think the opposite of every one of these. But if you think differently, feel free to use Java in its current form. I won't mind. (I'll still get more done at the end of the day than you do, but that's another story. {grin})

It's not a matter of "fixing" Java, as the thread implies. I think "to each his own". Java is optimized to support the paradigms listed above. And that's perfectly within the right of the developers.

I've shared a panel with James Gosling a few years back, and got to have lunch with him mid-day. He's a nice, well-intentioned guy. (Well, I think writing an Emacs program messed him up for life, but that's another story.) He's created a language that meets his goals, and apparently also strikes a chord in a lot of others. Sound familiar?

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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In reply to •Re: How would you fix Java? by merlyn
in thread How would you fix Java? by Anonymous Monk

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