Joe Ottinger has got out a rant of his own (are you are St. Louis fan? jk :).
He rants about Java from all angles:
- JVM: It sucks as it isn’t on every desktop
- API: “The API sucks for a lot of reasons. It lacks real focus, often providing multiple paths to a single end; Swing or AWT? StringTokenizer or Scanner? Date or Calendar? DOM or SAX? Reader or InputStream?”
- The People: He complains about some of the requests from Java users
I have an issue with some of the issues, mainly the complaints about changes to the Java language.
JAVA IS A PLATFORM!
Embrace other languages. Embrace other ways to express your ideas. There is NO perfect language.
NOTE: Joe, I agree with your memory management issues. I think you are correct. I just singled out ONE point, that although Java the language doesn’t need to be changed for everyones whim, I wish that Sun thought of Java as more of a platform (as .NET does), and puts more behind other languages, which allow people to express themselves in a way that makes sense to them. That is all mate :)
October 28th, 2004 at 8:20 am
Dion: You missed my point.
Dion Almaer responded, sort of, to my previous blog entry, and I think he’s incorrect.
Mr. Almaer, with all due respect, I think you should try reading what I wrote, instead of responding sans understanding.
While my initial point about the JVM