Re (tilly) 5: Perl and Java

Please don't try to convince you that this isn't Perl vs Java again?

OK then, I won't.

I will say that he doesn't like Perl, he doesn't spend the article saying that other languages are better, and he spends basically all of it discussing his actual experiences from trying to code a lot of Java.

But I won't try to convince you this link is not just a Perl-Java discussion. Or a Java vs anything in particular rant. (Well maybe CLOS, but he doesn't program in that any more.) Because you don't want to hear it.

I still think it is a worthwhile read. Even if you are not interested in hearing language comparisons. Even if you are not interested in Java. (Which I am not.)

But go ahead. Save yourself the time. After all the article is a waste of time, you basically said so yourself. Why bother listening to someone who actually read it, when you already made up your mind?

As I said, don't bother. After all I am willing to bet that you won't know what 90% of what he is talking about is about. Why bother learning what those techniques are and when you might want to use them? After all they don't work in Java so they must be useless, right? (Many of them are not supported in Perl either. Gads, why would someone want to waste brainpower on that?)

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Re: Re (tilly) 5: Perl and Java by mothra (Hermit) on Apr 03, 2001 at 08:49 UTC
For the sake of clarity (or the lack of attention to what I wrote, whatever you want to call it), I'll state myself yet again (quoting from my earlier reply): ...My point was not to dismiss the technical merits of the article... My entire point was that...well wait, I won't repeat what I've already said.	[reply]
Re (tilly) 7: Perl and Java by tilly (Archbishop) on Apr 03, 2001 at 16:23 UTC
You had a point? And here I thought that you just were flaming someone for providing an interesting link that he had read when you clearly have not read it. You are clearly of the opinion that we should not base our opinions entirely on what someone else thinks. That is a laudable point of view. What is unjustified from that point of view is deciding, sight unseen, that other people's experiences are just worthless data that should be ignored...	[reply]