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> relative to C Seemed like you'd shifted your comparison to "almost every managed language." So Java at-the-time compared to Smalltalk and Lisp at-the-time.
by igouy 5y ago
> relative to C
Seemed like you'd shifted your comparison to "almost every managed language."
So Java at-the-time compared to Smalltalk and Lisp at-the-time.
I suppose Haskell at-the-time, OCaml at-the-time :-)
- munificent 5y agoI did say "almost every" and not "every". :) Were there fast managed languages? Yes, a couple. Were there fast managed object-oriented languages? Yes, Self and a Smalltalk or two. Were there fast managed statically typed languages? Yes, SML and Haskell. Where there fast, managed, statically typed, and object-oriented languages? Not many. Maybe Eiffel, but that was shackled by DbC dogmatism and probably some amount of Eurocentricity. I don't think Ada had GC back then and if your complaint is that Java is too verbose, you sure as heck aren't gonna like Ada.