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Quite good points except the major one : "I have a hunch that it won't be a very successful language"
by gbin 14y ago
Quite good points except the major one : "I have a hunch that it won't be a very successful language"
- praptak 14y agoGranted, pg has not explicitly defined "successful" but it is clear from the context. By this definition Java is not successful.
- damian2000 14y agoSo why is it unsuccessful? Sure inside the browser its a piece of crap, but in terms of usage and the number of OSes and embedded processors it runs on, its surpassed probably only by C.
- praptak 14y agoIt is not popular among hackers.
- thebluesky 14y agoThe zero day applet exploits say otherwise ;)
- bcoates 14y agoIn 2001 Java had much broader ambitions than the (large) niches it has found itself in. Java's zeitgeist definition of success back then was creating a "anything and a JVM running Java" software monoculture even more extensive than C's.