> Java isn't a scripting language, and it wasn't ever intended to be one. One of my beliefs is that we shouldn't think about "scripting languages" versus "comp

> Java isn't a scripting language, and it wasn't ever intended to be one. One of my beliefs is that we shouldn't think about "scripting languages" versus "compiled languages" and just think in terms of what would make for the ideal programming language, period. By that standard, Java is inferior to Python (to pick just one example) because it is so much more verbose and formal when accomplishing the same desired task.