Impressed

[Paulo Pinto]

On Sunday, 29 July 2012 at 19:23:38 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-07-29 15:10, Minas Mina wrote:
>> The only thing Java is good for is portability. And its 
>> standard library
>> is very good too.
>>
>> However the language as it is, really sucks in my opinion. I 
>> mean,
>> there's no way to change the value of a primitive type passed 
>> to a
>> method? Come on.
>
> There are many other languages available on the JVM platform. 
> Scala for example.

The problem is that in the enterprise world with expendable 
programmers, is very hard to do JVM based projects with anything 
other than Java.

I was very happy when on a project for a new internal proprietary 
JSF based framework, we were allowed to have Groovy as part of 
the framework's supported languages.

That only happened because the said company was replacing the 
Perl scripts by Groovy scripts in their deployment infrastructure.

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Paulo