but if you want to prefer Java over Perl, you must buy into the following paradigms:
...
Objects are universally better than non-objects

I'll disagree with this one. I'd say that in Java you're required to use objects, but that does not mean you're required to like them better. For some the requirement is completely acceptable, others it's a small tradeoff, and others it's a major annoyance. However, you do not have to agree with every design issue to use a language. What you're saying is tantamount to saying that anyone who uses python has to like whitespace restrictions, which I know is false :)

Well, I think writing an Emacs program messed him up for life

Wouldn't you be? I know I would ;-)

In reply to Re: •Re: How would you fix Java? by Anonymous Monk
in thread How would you fix Java? by Anonymous Monk

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