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Phillip Greenspun: Java == SUV

Posted by Hemos on from the vroom-vroom-smash dept.

lateralus writes "In his blog, Philip Greenspun re tells of his epiphany that Java is the SUV of programming languages. An interesting point brought forth in his typical extreme style."

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  1. Re:Java's Cover by Sphere1952 · · Score: 2, Troll

    I've been at this programming thing long enough to know that everything Graham said is completely correct.

    In fact, strong typing is stupid. If you want to treat a byte as a char in one statement and as a bit vector in the next you shouldn't have to beg the computer to let you do exactly what it does on its own. (Study the bit structure of ASCII sometime, and you'll understand.)

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