Two Takes on the Java Dilemma

Posted by Hemos on Monday April 12, 2004 @02:35AM from the let-my-sandbox-go dept.

Joe Barr writes "NewsForge is running a pair of excellent commentaries on the plight of Java and the Java development community following the recent "settlement" between longtime rivals Sun and Microsoft. One is by Rick Ross, the articulate leader of JavaLobby, entitled "Where is Java in the settlement?" The second is "Free but shackled: The Java trap" by Richard Stallman. Good reading. Both commentators put their finger on the heart of the problem, albeit from different perspectives." Yes, Newsforge and Slashdot are both owned by OSDN.

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Re:Until it is set free by Srin+Tuar · 2004-04-12 03:49 · Score: 1, Redundant

If python werent so bedraggledly slow, and had a sane context-free grammar, I'd use it in a heartbeat.

No matter what the argument, having INVISIBLE characters of indeterminate size be syntax significant seems too rigid for my taste.

Being so inflexible in even the most trivial of things seems to be the foundation for the whole language, and is probably the number one reason why python hasnt taken the world by storm.