Maybe D is right about GC after all !

[Russel Winder]

On Sun, 2017-12-24 at 22:04 +0000, Dan Partelly via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> […]
> 
> 1995. A dark year. Two of the crappiest language ever devised by 
> man arrived. Both gained traction. Java, through marketing. PhP 
> though tribalism.

I thought 1995 was a good year (*). I have no idea about PHP, but the
Java bubble was interesting, especially having watching it evolve
alongside Self in the 1990 to 1994 period. 

"Crappy" is a subjective thing with no objective usefulness. There was,
and still is, a lot wrong with Java, and indeed the whole OO obsession
(**), but it caused a very useful revolution in 1994. It remains
arguably the single most important programming language in 2017,
whether a liked state or not.


(*) Mostly because I got a Chair of Computing Science at KCL.

(**) There is a lot wrong with the functional obsession as well.

-- 
Russel.
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