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These days I just treat Java like C. It has a relatively small syntax and small feature set, but it has a relatively large set of libraries available (built in
by jcromartie 17y ago
These days I just treat Java like C. It has a relatively small syntax and small feature set, but it has a relatively large set of libraries available (built in and otherwise).
The language itself just isn't that interesting. It's what people are building with it (like Clojure, or Scala, or Hadoop, or Processing) that are interesting.
- mahmud 17y agoThese days? Steele's "The Java Programming Language" is where I learned Java first, and I don't think I have read another book, spec, or library documentation for java after that. Java as "C with OOP, Unicode, Exception handling and Threads" is really an excellent language. I write one small java app every 4 years and that subset of it served me well.