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The Reason For Java's Staying Power: It's Easy To Read
jfruh writes: Java made its public debut twenty years ago today, and despite a sometimes bumpy history that features its parent company being absorbed by Oracle, it's still widely used. Mark Reinhold, chief architect for the Oracle's Java platform group, offers one explanation for its continuing popularity: it's easy for humans to understand it at a glance. "It is pretty easy to read Java code and figure out what it means. There aren't a lot of obscure gotchas in the language ... Most of the cost of maintaining any body of code over time is in maintenance, not in initial creation."
Not as easy to read as Python though
You made me google "cylindrical reference".
final T up = (T) throwable;
throw up;
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
Give him a break, he's been programming in java for 15+ years.
A cylindrical reference is like a circular reference, except it happens when your code is three dimensional.
Yes, and if you gave someone who never read or wrote code before and gave them a printed sheet of Perl... they might wonder if the sheet is upright or upside down.
-- I was raised on the command line, bitch
He's probably a COBOL programmer.