Java > Scala

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Fri Dec 2 09:08:44 PST 2011


"Russel Winder" <russel at russel.org.uk> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1242.1322814007.24802.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>
> Java is the main language of development just now. D is a tiny little
> backwater in the nether regions of obscurity. If any language is a joke
> here, it is D since it is currently unable to claim any serious market
> share in the world of development.

I see, so popularity is the primary determining factor of quality and 
validity. Right? What's right is inherently popular and what's popular is 
inherently right.

> If you don't know why, how can you make claims that you cannot
> substantiate in any way shape or form.

That's just BS. Even the scientific method starts with *observations*, not 
the "how" or "why". Those come later. Observations without knowing the 
underlying cause are perfectly valid. Hell, if JVM is slow, then it doesn't 
really even matter why (unless you're optimizing it or trying to avoid the 
same pitfalls), now does it?

> I am entirely comfortable with my perceptions
> of languages, so have no need for such behaviours.

That's BS posturing and chest-thumping. What is this, some damn new agers 
group where nobody's allowed to dislike anything and feel strongly about it?

The reason you feel no need for such things is because you don't appear to 
find significant fault with Java/JVM. Other people do. And unlike you, those 
people have to put up with a world heavily infected by it. *Of course*, you 
don't feel a need to complain, you're comfortable equating popularity with 
validity.

I'm not trying to say you're not entitled to be happy with Java/JVM, but 
when someone who likes the status quo sees someone who dislikes it and then 
says, "Hey, how dare you be unhappy about it! After all, I'm happy! It's the 
popular thing, therefore it must be ok and you should like it!", and starts 
preaching, that's just asinine.




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