A shame

A shame

Posted Apr 15, 2005 20:31 UTC (Fri) by renox (guest, #23785)
In reply to: A shame by ncm
Parent article: GCJ - past, present, and future

Frankly I think that your reasons are a bit weak for such "definitive judgements".
While Java has many flaws (the number of bugs in it standard library being the number 1 mistake, Swing..), it is not a bad language just disapointingly average (getting out a language with no generics just to release it faster, no comment).
What I find amusing is that you seem to find C++ okay and Java ugly whereas in my book it is just the opposite: C++ *is* bad: a language which needs years for developpers to learn (and from which they use 30% of the features at most) and for which no compiler can be fully conforming years after the specification was made is bad.
Also in my opinion, the 'bolted on' nature of C++ feels is really ugly (reference and pointers, urgg), whereas Java's shallow use of C syntax to ease migration seems sensible.

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