[Info-vax] And another one bites the dust....

[Dan Cross]

In article <sv0obg$mnm$1 at panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
>John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:
>[snip]
>Someday you'll need to write Java.  It's like the baby food version of C.

It's funny, when I was in high school someone scolded me for
basically saying that I would pick the most appropriate language
for the problem at hand.  Some technician dragged me through the
mud saying, basically, "you'll program in whatever language your
manager tells you to."

Curiously, that never really happened.  Nowdays, I'm happy that
I'm senior enough that I can largely decide these things for
myself.

I did spend a year and change programming in Java.  The language
itself isn't terrible, though verbose.  However, it does seem to
be attached to what one might call a culture of excessive
abstraction.  It sure seemed like an excessive amount of code is
dedicated to various kinds of machinery plugging in providers,
adapters, and all sorts of GoF design patterns, without actually
doing much of anything.  :-/  "At what point do we actually add
these two numbers together?" "Oh, you just implement this
interface and create a factory that plugs into this DI framework
and that code is generated for you."

	- Dan C.