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I thought Java was pretty cool at the time of its announcement. I even started working on Java applets for an educational website. The idea was to teach algeb
by ansible 7y ago
I thought Java was pretty cool at the time of its announcement.
I even started working on Java applets for an educational website. The idea was to teach algebra / calculus concepts, and use a Java applet to interactively plot graphs and such.
Even at the time, I did wonder about the standard types vs. Objects split, though I wasn't to become an OO purist (temporarily) until learning more Eiffel.
- pjmlp 7y agoJava was undoubtedly cool, I also thought like that. Now what disappointed me was that languages like it, namely Oberon variants, Modula-3, Eiffel, Sather, all had a mix of AOT/JIT toolchain, with value types and low level capabilities. Java nuked all of this, and is now trying to catch back those features that should have been there since the beginning (AOT kind of was, but only on commercial JDKs).