Re: Future with Ada

["Mark Lundquist" <up.yerz@nospam.com>]

"Maciej Sobczak" <maciej@maciejsobczak.com> wrote in message
news:3BF193F3.5090903@maciejsobczak.com...
>
>So where this trend to Java/C# comes from? From
> money, of course. And there's a crowd that follows.
>

"Money-oriented programming".

A quote from Alexander Stepanov (author of the C++ Standard Template
Library):

"I spent several months programming in Java. Contrary to its authors
prediction, it did not grow on me. : I did not find any new insights - for
the first time in my life programming in a new language did not bring me new
insights. It keeps all the stuff that I never use in C++ - inheritance,
virtuals - OO gook - and removes the stuff that I find useful. It might be
successful - after all, MS DOS was - and it might be a profitable thing for
all your readers to learn Java, but it has no intellectual value whatsoever.
Look at their implementation of hash tables. Look at the sorting routines
that come with their "cool" sorting applet. Try to use AWT. The best way to
judge a language is to look at the code written by its proponents. "Radix
enim omnium malorum est cupiditas" - and Java is clearly an example of a
money oriented programming (MOP). As the chief proponent of Java at SGI told
me: 'Alex, you have to go where the money is.' But I do not particularly
want to go where the money is - it usually does not smell nice there."

- Mark

P.S. I still need someone like Dewar to tell me what the Latin means :-)