Re:“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996)
by PaulHoule on Thursday January 06, 2022 @10:31AM
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If Common LISP had become popular I think there would be a popular distaste for everything about it and people would be wishing they could write code in PHP, Visual Basic, COBOL, Cold Fusion, etc. (There was a popular distaste for Common LISP at the time, it was hard to find a LISPer in the 1980s who liked it. Half of that was it was hard to fit it into a 16-bit machine and wouldn't become really implementable on microcomputers until a 32-bit OS was available... Thus BASIC got another decade of life extension.)
Until Java came around every book on Object Oriented programming (say "C++") had examples such as "Stack", "Queue", etc. In the case of Java you saw people starting to write objects mirroring the business and application domains. People who were trying to use objects in Smalltalk or C++ in 1990 just weren't accomplishing enough that somebody could step back and say "object orientation sucks", rather they were getting stuck and blaming themselves or blaming the tools, rather than the concept.
Until Java came around every book on Object Oriented programming (say "C++") had examples such as "Stack", "Queue", etc. In the case of Java you saw people starting to write objects mirroring the business and application domains. People who were trying to use objects in Smalltalk or C++ in 1990 just weren't accomplishing enough that somebody could step back and say "object orientation sucks", rather they were getting stuck and blaming themselves or blaming the tools, rather than the concept.