Do everything in Java…

[Ary Borenszweig via Digitalmars-d]

On 12/4/14, 2:11 PM, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> On 12/4/14, 10:47 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> It's an argument for Java over Python specifically but a bit more
>> general in reality. This stood out for me:
>>
>>
>> !…other languages like D and Go are too new to bet my work on."
>>
>>
>> http://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/java-for-everything.html
>>
>
> Very interesting read. But the world of humans still has time to grow
> and evolve, and humans always try to do better, you can't stop that.
>
> He says Java is verbose and "so what?". Well, couldn't it be less
> verbose and still be that good?
>
> Could you be very DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) in a language that's
> statically typed, but with good type inference and very good
> performance, superior to those of VM languages?
>
> Yes, you can. You shouldn't stop there. OK, use Java now, but don't stop
> there. Try to think of new ideas, new languages. At least as a hobby. If
> Python makes you happy and Java not, but Java gets the work done, who
> cares? I don't want to spend my time in the world being unhappy but
> doing work (which probably isn't for my own utility, and probably isn't
> for anyone's *real* utility), I'd rather be happy.
>
> Just my 2 cents :-)

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