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Java is a great virtual machine, a good collection of open source libraries, an ok language, and a nightmare collection of best practices and people who enforce them. I don't have a beef with the language, it is the developers who have never programmed in another language and still think that FactoryBuilderImpls are a good idea. They have never ventured outside of an IDE, but insist that Python isn't a real programmi…
That in a nutshell is why I said Java is a horrible language. That said, people with a strong preference for a particular language are comparable to religious fanatics. A good engineer doesn't let language preference and emotional attachment to something get in the way of building something better. If learning something else is too uncomfortable or seems unecessary to you then you are no better than a religious perso…
Re: Eve: Programming designed for humans
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