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[Bruno Medeiros via Digitalmars-d]

On 06/09/2014 01:50, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Am 05.09.2014 23:56, schrieb Dicebot:
>> On Friday, 5 September 2014 at 14:18:46 UTC, Paulo  Pinto wrote:
>>> You can write DLLs in Java, for example with
>>> http://www.excelsiorjet.com/.
>>>
>>> The fact that the Java reference implementation is a VM, doesn't tie
>>> the language to a VM.
>>
>> Why pick Java if not for JVM? It is mediocre language at most, very
>> limited and poor feature-wise, lacking expressive power even compared to
>> C++ (you can at least abuse templates in the latter). JVM, however, may
>> be the best VM environment implementation out there and that can be
>> useful.
>
> Enterprise answer:
>
> - lots of libraries to chose from;
> - lots of easy to find (replacable) programmers;
>
> --
> Paulo

Also, superior development-time tools: IDEs, debuggers. (the debugging 
support could be considered part of the JVM though, depending on how you 
look at it.)

Also, me and a lot others don't agree Java is a mediocre language. It is 
basic language, yes. But a lot of good software can be written 
comfortably with just a basic language.
C++ is more *powerful* than Java, but it doesn't mean its better. I 
would rather be programming in Java over C++, any time.

-- 
Bruno Medeiros
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