Is that why Java is the most popular language on the planet?

Define "popular". I'd bet there are far more lines of COBOL out there. Probably Fortran, too, which is still actively used for heavy-number-cruching in scientific applications (do you have any idea how fast a Fortran program running on MS-DOS 6 goes on a GHz system?).

I sense that you have no intention in being funny, but such "terse things" is exactly what turns off many people to Perl.

And not being able to do "terse things" is exactly what turns other people off to Java. Not just Perl programmers, either, but a lot of C++ diehards.

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I wanted to explore how Perl's closures can be
manipulated, and ended up creating an object
system by accident. -- Schemer

: () { :|:& };:

Note: All code is untested, unless otherwise stated

In reply to Re: Re: Re: OT: JavaJunkies (Javamonks sorta) by hardburn
in thread OT: JavaJunkies (Javamonks sorta) by coreolyn

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