Re:Why isn't Java used for modern web application development?
by mibbitier on Sunday June 10, 2012 @11:53AM
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> "You'd much rather read a Java program because you are already biased towards it."
No. I'd rather read "int foo; bar.printLn()" than "%foo => &bar :print"
Less special characters. More words.
Each to their own though.
Re:Why isn't Java used for modern web application development?
by koide on Sunday June 10, 2012 @05:00PM
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So you'd also rather read
"An unordered tuple Z going from a1 to an is a defined as for every x in Z then x is a1 or x is a2 ... or x is an"
than
"An unordered tuple Z (a1,...,an) is defined as [x : x = a1 v x = a2 v ... x = an]"?
I take that as not being (or not wanting to be) familiar with the language you are reading. If you'll read Ruby, at least browse a manual to know what {} and # mean.
Re:Why isn't Java used for modern web application development?
by pi18n on Sunday June 10, 2012 @10:53PM
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The psuedo-Ruby code posted there is characteristic of someone who is having a knee-jerk reaction against something they don't understand. The person we are arguing against is obviously a Java zealot that will never consider using another language, so as long as he's going to accept that different people like different languages I think that's good enough for today.
Why is Java considered inefficient and English not? Maybe because we don't need to create a new class for every concept in English. Yours is a pretty poor analogy; English vocabulary is extensive but it is not inherently verbose.
Anyway I am only writing not to say you are wrong, but rather, since other people are arguing with you reasonably and you are dismissing them without consideration, your argumentation is wrong.