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by chromatic (983)

Java loses when you compare it to Smalltalk, Lisp, or anything else even remotely decent. Java wins when you compare it to C++, at least until you try to mix Java generics with Java closures, in which case you have to use trigraphs in your STL templates to match the level of ugliness.
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  by waltman (335) on 2008.02.21 17:42 (#61218) Journal
  
  But Java loses when you compare it to C++ when you consider that any decent C++ compiler has dozens of optimization parameters you can set to try to improve the speed and/or size of your executable. Does javac have any?
  
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