<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div><div>I like the cool brilliant people in the Java community</div> <div>I don't like classloader issues</div> <div>I like its platform independence and non-proprietary nature</div> <div>I don't like memory leak issues - okay so maybe that is not just Java</div> <div>I like all the cool people (see #1) doing all kinds of cool projects</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Who's next...<br><br><b><i>Brian Sheldon <<a href="mailto:brian_s_sheldon@yahoo.com"><a href="mailto:brian_s_sheldon@yahoo.com">brian_s_sheldon@yahoo.com</a></a>></i></b> wrote:</div> <blockquote class="replbq" style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"> <div>I like having a Date data type. </div> <div>I hate floats</div> <div>I love junit</div> <div>I can't wait until we get to 1.5+ so we can
use generics 'cause I hate class cast exceptions</div> <div>I like the exception as a concept</div> <div> </div> <div>ex-cobol programmer Brian</div> <div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br><br> <div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Jeff Bowman <<a href="mailto:jeff@bowmansarrow.us"><a href="mailto:jeff@bowmansarrow.us">jeff@bowmansarrow.us</a></a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:jug@lists.okcjug.org"></a><a href="mailto:jug@lists.okcjug.org"><a href="mailto:jug@lists.okcjug.org">jug@lists.okcjug.org</a></a><br>Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 8:36:11 PM<br>Subject: Re: [OKC JUG] Fun Questions about Java<br><br>Jason Daggs wrote:<br>> What do you like the most about Java?<br>> <br>> What do you like the least about Java?<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Jug mailing list<br>> <a
href="mailto:Jug@lists.okcjug.org" ymailto="mailto:Jug@lists.okcjug.org"></a><a href="mailto:Jug@lists.okcjug.org"><a href="mailto:Jug@lists.okcjug.org">Jug@lists.okcjug.org</a></a><br>> <a href="http://lists.okcjug.org/listinfo.cgi/jug-okcjug.org" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://lists.okcjug.org/listinfo.cgi/jug-okcjug.org"><a href="http://lists.okcjug.org/listinfo.cgi/jug-okcjug.org">http://lists.okcjug.org/listinfo.cgi/jug-okcjug.org</a></a><br><br>I like the ubiquity of tools (browser plugin, cross-platform dev tools, <br>etc).<br>I don't like amount of effort it takes to get even small apps built.<br>I like swing (yes, GridBag is my favorite layout manager)<br>I don't like the lack of first class objects (as in Smalltalk)<br>I don't like the lack of closures (as in lisp or ruby, or delegates in C#)<br>I don't like the lack of macros (as in lisp)<br>I like the autoboxing and new for loop syntactical sugar in 1.5+<br>I don't like the import
statement (python and, to a lesser degree, ruby <br>do a better job with this concept)<br>I like the high quality tools (eclipse, netbeans, maven, jmock, junit)<br><br>I guess that is enough for now.<br><br>Who's next with their list?<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Jug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Jug@lists.okcjug.org" ymailto="mailto:Jug@lists.okcjug.org"></a><a href="mailto:Jug@lists.okcjug.org"><a href="mailto:Jug@lists.okcjug.org">Jug@lists.okcjug.org</a></a><br><a href="http://lists.okcjug.org/listinfo.cgi/jug-okcjug.org" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://lists.okcjug.org/listinfo.cgi/jug-okcjug.org"><a href="http://lists.okcjug.org/listinfo.cgi/jug-okcjug.org">http://lists.okcjug.org/listinfo.cgi/jug-okcjug.org</a></a><br></div><br></div></div><br> <hr size="1"> Looking for last minute shopping deals? <a
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