Re^4: Need food Monk

That's an unfair assessment of java. It's the same as thinking of perl as only a good text manipulation language. Last I checked, perl can do things with Tk, data structures, statistics and so on.

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Re^5: Need food Monk by Mutant (Priest) on Jan 11, 2005 at 16:04 UTC
I'm not sure I made any assessment of Java. I simply stated that Java programmers aren't, in general, any better than Perl programmers, and that the main reason they get paid more is that Java is the current industry standard.	[reply]
Re^6: Need food Monk by Anonymous Monk on Jan 13, 2005 at 18:21 UTC
Or should I say "industry pet toy", let's not call it Industry Standard. C is the industry standard for OS development, after all. Java is just a popular tool for doing things with programmers with out a lot of "to the metal" experience and without "hacker tendancies". If you have business programmers that's what you use. If you have people who love programming and they dominate your outfit (and have management buy-in), that's what you avoid.	[reply]