Looking for champion - std.lang.d.lex

[Bruno Medeiros]

On 27/10/2010 22:43, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "retard"<re at tard.com.invalid>  wrote in message
> news:iaa44v$17sf$2 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>> I only meant that the widespead adoption of Java shows how the public at
>> large cares very little about the performance issues you mentioned.
>
> The public at large is convinced that "Java is fast now, really!". So I'm
> not certain widespread adoption of Java necessarily indicates they don't
> care so much about performance. Of course, Java is quickly becoming a legacy
> language anyway (the next COBOL, IMO), so that throws another wrench into
> the works.
>
>

Java is quickly becoming a legacy language? the next COBOL? SRSLY?...
Just two years ago, the now hugely popular Android platform choose Java 
as it's language of choice, and you think Java is becoming legacy?...

The development of the Java language itself has stagnated over the last 
6 years or so (especially due to corporate politics, which now has 
become even worse and uncertain with all the shit Oracle is doing), but 
that's a completely different statement from saying Java is becoming 
legacy.
In fact, all the uproar and concern about the future of Java under 
Oracle, of the JVM, of the JCP (the body that regulates changes to 
Java),etc., is a testament to the huge popularity of Java. Otherwise 
people (and corporations) wouldn't care, they would just let it wither 
away with much less concern.


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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer