<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><P>I like having a Date data type. </P>
<P>I hate floats</P>
<P>I love junit</P>
<P>I can't wait until we get to 1.5+ so we can use generics 'cause I hate class cast exceptions</P>
<P>I like the exception as a concept</P>
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<P>ex-cobol programmer Brian</P>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Jeff Bowman <jeff@bowmansarrow.us><BR>To: jug@lists.okcjug.org<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">Jug@lists.okcjug.org</A><BR>> <A href="http://lists.okcjug.org/listinfo.cgi/jug-okcjug.org" target=_blank>http://lists.okcjug.org/listinfo.cgi/jug-okcjug.org</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">Jug@lists.okcjug.org</A><BR><A href="http://lists.okcjug.org/listinfo.cgi/jug-okcjug.org" target=_blank>http://lists.okcjug.org/listinfo.cgi/jug-okcjug.org</A><BR></DIV><BR></DIV></div><br>
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