Java not that bad...
Java not that bad...
Posted Jul 30, 2004 15:33 UTC (Fri) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)In reply to: Java not that bad... by dh
Parent article: Paul Graham on great hackers
Once I switched a project from Python to Java: Better syntax, precompilation and therefore syntax check before it is run
Those syntax checks would be useful if Java would have templates. But it doesn't have (currently) so you have to cast a lot and even though there are static type checks you still end up with lots of ClassCastExceptions during runtime - not much of an improvement over Python or Perl.
faster execution
Really? It takes ages to start the Java VM and it starts with occupying 60MB of RAM - and the program hasn't done anything yet.
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