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  • On Java (Score:2)

    by djberg96 (2603) on 2004.08.24 19:02 (#33660) Journal
    Swing disasters continue to give Java a bad name.

    It's not fair to blame Java for a bad library. This is a foolish criticism.

    I don't entirely agree. One of the often cited reasons for using Java in the first place are the cross platform GUI libraries (SWT being the other). This is not a third party library - it's effectively a core library, made by the Java folks for the Java folks. If it sucks, then it taints Java as a whole, and might make you regret ever using Swing in the first place.

    My main problem with Java is not the language itself, but what I call the "Java mentality". The "more is more" philosophy, and the idiotic notion that Java must be a better language because, well, it has corporate sponsorship and strong typing.

    • By that argument, you can criticize Perl because, let's face it, though CGI.pm is incredibly useful and recommended, both the code and the interface leaves much to be desired (as Lincoln Stein readily admits.) There are plenty of other "core" modules -- made by the Perl folks for the Perl folks -- against which one could make a similar criticism. Whether or not these libraries are well designed has nothing to do with whether or not Perl is well designed.

      I do agree with your comments about the "Java ment

      • By that argument, you can criticize Perl because, let's face it, though CGI.pm is incredibly useful and recommended, both the code and the interface leaves much to be desired (as Lincoln Stein readily admits.) There are plenty of other "core" modules -- made by the Perl folks for the Perl folks -- against which one could make a similar criticism. Whether or not these libraries are well designed has nothing to do with whether or not Perl is well designed.

        If CGI.pm had sucked as badly as Swing supposedly d

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