Re: OT: Comparison of Java, Perl, PHP, C++, C#, VB in PECI survey

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From: Tim Smith (reply_in_group_at_mouse-potato.com)
Date: 05/09/04 

Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 17:16:05 GMT

In article <2bfb3b97.0405081829.752d3bb3@posting.google.com>, asj wrote:
>> 1. It's the flavor of the month with the PHBs, and so every publisher
>> rushes out a ton of crappy books.
>
>
> uh...java has been with us for 9 years...this might be true for C# though.
> notice that this survey correlates well with other surveys of language
> usage. for example, java is extremely well represented in any

C was around for many years, with only a handful of books, and then exploded
in the bookstores.

...
>> There are many Java libraries and technologies that are very awkward to
>> use, and bloated in their interfaces. Things that are easy to figure out
>> in, say, Perl, just from the perldoc documentation, often send me to the
>> bookstore in Java.
>
> you're kidding right?

No. Java libraries often provide very complex interfaces to simple tasks,
whereas Perl modules tend to provide simple interfaces to simple tasks.
Compare the two in, say, database access, cryptography, and XML parsing, if
you want some examples.

There is nothing inherent in Java that forces it to be this way (heck, I
have my own Java crypto library at work that provides a simple, functional,
interface, that can be documented clearly and completely in one page). 

-- 
--Tim Smith

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