The other possibility is that they're pulling back
on their 'world domination' agenda on the server
market and instead concentrating on world
domination in b2b and asp standards (and allowing
other OSs in if it helps this).
OOP is not a panacea, but as far as rapid
development (especially for a *group* of people)
and maintainability as well as novel and
innovative programmatic structures it is far
superior to procedural programming for most
tasks. (I said most tasks... some tasks are
better done from a procedural standpoint...
choose the right tool for the job..)
In general I would say that OOP is 21st century
programming.
I didn't like OOP either.. until I got it. After
I got it, I loved it.
Java is by far my favorite OOP language by the
way. C++ is a little kludgy but probably a
close 2nd.
JSP sucks. We use a self-developed servlet XML
based hosing architecture called LeXml (which is
not yet ready to release to the public) that is
quite fast. Servlets are quite fast.
JSP is an ugly hack. There are two things you
should not judge the Java platform on: JSP and
applets. (Not that applets are a bad idea.. they
are just badly implemented in most browsers..)
Java on the other hand is an extremely nice
very well structured language that facilitates
elegant programming, readability (unlike Herl
which looks more like what comes *out* of a
compiler), massive code reusability, and has
an amazing amout of ready-made functionality in
it's core libraries.
Java is great for server-side development and
development of cross-platform client software.
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The other possibility is that they're pulling back on their 'world domination' agenda on the server market and instead concentrating on world domination in b2b and asp standards (and allowing other OSs in if it helps this).
OOP is not a panacea, but as far as rapid
development (especially for a *group* of people)
and maintainability as well as novel and
innovative programmatic structures it is far
superior to procedural programming for most
tasks. (I said most tasks... some tasks are
better done from a procedural standpoint...
choose the right tool for the job..)
In general I would say that OOP is 21st century
programming.
I didn't like OOP either.. until I got it. After
I got it, I loved it.
Java is by far my favorite OOP language by the
way. C++ is a little kludgy but probably a
close 2nd.
The best way for large corporations to thank free
software developers is probably money. Think of
it as patronage for the arts.
JSP sucks. We use a self-developed servlet XML
based hosing architecture called LeXml (which is
not yet ready to release to the public) that is
quite fast. Servlets are quite fast.
JSP is an ugly hack. There are two things you
should not judge the Java platform on: JSP and
applets. (Not that applets are a bad idea.. they
are just badly implemented in most browsers..)
Java on the other hand is an extremely nice
very well structured language that facilitates
elegant programming, readability (unlike Herl
which looks more like what comes *out* of a
compiler), massive code reusability, and has
an amazing amout of ready-made functionality in
it's core libraries.
Java is great for server-side development and
development of cross-platform client software.
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They're coming to take me away!