[OKC JUG] Fun Questions about Java

[Brian Sheldon]

I like having a Date data type. 
I hate floats
I love junit
I can't wait until we get to 1.5+ so we can use generics 'cause I hate class cast exceptions
I like the exception as a concept

ex-cobol programmer Brian



----- Original Message ----
From: Jeff Bowman <jeff at bowmansarrow.us>
To: jug at lists.okcjug.org
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 8:36:11 PM
Subject: Re: [OKC JUG] Fun Questions about Java

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.

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