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I'll certainly take it over Haskell any day. And Perl, or Lisp. And I love static typing. The ugliness comes from the myriad frameworks that have sprung up for
by sampsonjs 14y ago
I'll certainly take it over Haskell any day. And Perl, or Lisp. And I love static typing. The ugliness comes from the myriad frameworks that have sprung up for it(metaprogramming in XML, good god).
- ilamparithi 14y agoVery true. Most of the hate for java is actually because of the frameworks. But Play framework has made java web application development fun again. Also I find static typing very useful for large projects. Even though I go to python for small programs (file handling, quick database insert), I still go to java for large projects. What I miss in java is the succinctness of python(like list comprehension). But I still don't want to loose static typing. I thought scala was the answer. But I was not impressed when I tried it.
- sampsonjs 14y agoI like Python too, the dynamic type system and performance hit are the only things that might discourage me from using it for a big project. Go might be worth checking out, it's supposed to give you things like first class functions in a compiled language.
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