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• absolutely a response (Score:2)

  by lachoy (1663)

  IMO these are absolutely a response to C#. Most people in the open source Java communities I run in seem to think so as well. I don't think this is a bad thing -- hopefully this will become a virtuous cycle where both languages innovate -- well, for a limited definition of innovate :-) -- and force each other to be more responsive to the day-to-day users.

  I think most of the innovation in Java is bubbling up from (surprise!) the opensource community. For instance, there are a number of projects that implem
• silly company PR languages (Score:1)

  by mary.poppins (3530)

  Use perl. Use ocaml. Use C. These were all designed by people with actual
  problems to solve. (well, okay, ocaml does have some degree of silly
  academicness to it . . . :)
  
  Java and C# are silly corporate-PR-hyped things.
  
  For what application would either Java or C# be better than one of {perl, ocaml,
  C}?
  
      perl: super-compact notation (perl -pe is the super-sed)
      ocaml: speed, correctness, quite compact notation
      C: total control, no surprises from the compiler
• Multiple Inheritance (Score:1)

  by RobertX (3759)

  That will (and I think rightly so) not be in the Java language anytime soon.

  I think the improvements are a little of both Sun listening and C# competition.

  Perl is great and I use it. Try writing a really huge application in it and still maintain your sanity. : )
  • Re:Multiple Inheritance (Score:1)

    by chromatic (983)

    Try writing a huge application in any language and still maintain your sanity!
  • Re:Multiple Inheritance (Score:1)

    by mary.poppins (3530)

    I would rather use perl than java for any-size program.
    
    One of the important factors, of course, being that the program expressed as
    perl code would be much less huge. :)