News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Why I like Java by andrewflnr on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @01:55PM (#7467529)
No, his point is that you don't have to fight the language. The course in the language is obvious, it's just long and kind of ugly. It's wading, not fighting.

My problem is that the solution in a slightly more expressive language is equally obvious, so I have to fight my own rage at java for its stuttering and clumsy excuse for closures. Fighting the language, on the other hand, is when I try to write a conditional or loop in sh.

There are no comments on this comment yet.