Top Five World’s Most Underrated Programming Languages
jmh530
john.michael.hall at gmail.com
Wed Jan 23 15:04:00 UTC 2019
On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 13:03:18 UTC, Bienlein wrote:
>
> Also, the Internet was Java's killer application. No other
> language had the libraries for accessing the Internet easily.
> Then there is dynamic class loading. This made things a little
> bit more unsafe at runtime but in general developer
> productivity rose sharply, comparable to Smalltalk and by order
> of magnitude compared to C++. At that time the competition for
> Java was only Smalltalk and C++. Performance was nevertheless
> good, because of runtime code optimization (HotSpot), which was
> a new thing (albeit taken from Strongtalk, some Smalltalk high
> performance variant)
I would think that dynamic class loading is something that could
be bolted on to C++ (and presumably D as well), albeit awkwardly.
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