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At my alma mater it also replaced all existing programming courses for non ee/cs students, replacing Java and Delphi still lingering around from days past. Mult

by consp 3y ago

At my alma mater it also replaced all existing programming courses for non ee/cs students, replacing Java and Delphi still lingering around from days past. Multi platform support is very important which is one of the reasons to use java. This has the big advantage that in multi disciplinary subjects everybody knows something of the programming language involved. And of course it saves on the insane licensing costs since Mathematica is no longer required in all student software packages (MATLAB still is afaik).

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odyssey7 3y ago
Consider that JavaScript is more multi-platform than Java, but is also dynamically typed and interpreted, just like Python.
- cmiles74 3y ago
  I'm not sure what "more multi-platform" means here. It's been a long time since I've run into an environment that didn't have easy access to Java and it's tools.
  - nephanth 3y ago
    I think if you account for all of the 2000s devices that had embedded java (but no web browsers) (think feature phones) java is probably "more multiplatform"
  - odyssey7 3y ago
    iOS?