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Re:Evolving Java Without Changing the Language by bad_user on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @02:29PM (#895316)
If Java is used a lot in academia is mostly because it is shoved on the throats of students as one of those "real world skills that helps you get a job".

Not to say that it doesn't have merits. It's fast enough, it's cross-platform, it has good tools and good libraries. But this wasn't the case until Java 1.4 was released. And its popularity has more to do with Sun's marketing campaign than anything else.

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Re:Evolving Java Without Changing the Language by WilliamLP on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @03:01PM (#895396)
> And its popularity has more to do with Sun's marketing campaign than anything else.

If you can do proof by assertion, so can I:

Java's popularity has more to do with properties of the language than marketing.

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Re:Evolving Java Without Changing the Language by 10ren on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @09:54PM (#896067)
I think he meant "used by academics in academic research", not "used by students".

Both are true.

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