[OKC JUG] Fun Questions about Java

[Jeff Bowman]

Jason Daggs wrote:
> What do you like the most about Java?
> 
> What do you like the least about Java?
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I like the ubiquity of tools (browser plugin, cross-platform dev tools, 
etc).
I don't like amount of effort it takes to get even small apps built.
I like swing (yes, GridBag is my favorite layout manager)
I don't like the lack of first class objects (as in Smalltalk)
I don't like the lack of closures (as in lisp or ruby, or delegates in C#)
I don't like the lack of macros (as in lisp)
I like the autoboxing and new for loop syntactical sugar in 1.5+
I don't like the import statement (python and, to a lesser degree, ruby 
do a better job with this concept)
I like the high quality tools (eclipse, netbeans, maven, jmock, junit)

I guess that is enough for now.

Who's next with their list?