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Having worked in Java for several years this is both a great strength and weakness in my opinion. On the one hand it keeps everyone speaking the same language a
by jdbernard 13y ago
Having worked in Java for several years this is both a great strength and weakness in my opinion. On the one hand it keeps everyone speaking the same language as opposed to some languages where it seems each team is speaking it's own dialect. On the other hand it can shackle the truly proficient, makes it easier for complacent programmers to remain so, and masks (temporarily) the incompetence of people who should not be writing production systems.
- jacques_chester 13y agoYes, but Java acknowledges that the bulk of programmers lie near a median. It's a language for an industrial age, full of automation and great steel buttresses. Those who hanker for surgery, or lightsabres, or precision archery, or any number of analogical departures -- they naturally drift to other languages.