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Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Bruce Eckel on 'Java Puzzlers'

Bruce Eckel on Java Puzzlers (via Luc). Man, that's just one big "ouch". Note that if you're not familiar with him, Eckel is the author of four editions of Thinking in Java and many other books.

Java often seems to have a religious devotion among its proponents rivaled only by the Lisp community (of old?). However, the Lisp community really did have something great. The Java community is just weird.

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David Lindquist wrote:

(you dont ()

     (think (that using)

            (a

             (language with so many)

             (parentheses)

             (is weird?)))

     nil)

∴ David Lindquist | 15-Nov-2005 1:04pm est | #8682

Ha, yes. It's definitely a "weird" language in that it looks unusual. But, particularly for the time, Lisp had qualities that were unmatched. One could understand how people who used the language could be devoted to it. Lisp is still very special today. As I'm sure you're aware, the weird syntax, abundance of parens and all, is one of the things that enables Lisp to be as powerful as it is.

∴ Keith | 15-Nov-2005 3:09pm est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #8683

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