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Re: Linux and Java--a tale of two revolutions



Java's write-once-deploy-anywhere is very attractive to people.
Combine that with the magic of OOP (it's still magic, even if it sucks
unless you're really good at design), and you have a winning
combination in the market.  Now if only Netscape had embedded Perl as
a VM instead of Java, we could have been breaking new barriers
everyday.  But Java?  Bah, it's too restrictive, it's too slow, it's
too controlled for a freedom-loving person (some may read
``anarchist'' here) like me.  One of the reasons I never took up
Pascal actually -- I want a language which lets me make mistakes if I
want to, not one which molly-coddles me...  I already have a Mother
:-)

Regards,

-- Raju

>>>>> "Arun" == Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Arun> On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 05:53:08PM +0530, Atul Chitnis
    Arun> wrote:
    >> Good stuff about why Linux will win, and Java may not.
    >> 
    >> http://www.ciol.com/content/columns/lastword/99121501.asp

    Arun> But some things just defy logic - I'm a Java hater, because
    Arun> I don't believe that programming it is any easier than
    Arun> writing C/C++ code and I have to pay a huge performance and
    Arun> memory footprint penalty.

    Arun> But what worries me is the army of new developers coming out
    Arun> of schools from their object oriented programming classes,
    Arun> who just love Java.

    Arun> The place where it has really succeeded is the server side
    Arun> business logic aka application server market. No one writes
    Arun> C/C++ code there. And there is a noticable move away from
    Arun> CGI and perl in that market at the high end.

    Arun> 	-Arun