Implicit Evaluation with PHP Archives: Java
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12 June 2007
Steve Jobs on Java
Jobs also confirmed that iPhone won’t support Java. “[It’s] not worth building in,” he said. “Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain.”
Apple Insider on June 12, 2007
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19 September 2006
Groovy: The missing Java language
I’ve written about my disdain for Java before. It is perhaps the most enterprise-y language the world’s seen since COBOL. Its full of features that cripple what developers know. And yet, it’s here and we must deal with that.
One thing I’ve also held to is that Java is actually many technologies. In Microsoft, you have […]
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1 August 2006
History of the World, Part XII: Wherein Java covers its eyes and proclaims “You Can’t See Me!”
It astounds me, that Sun could consider implementing method delegates in Java and then reject it. While functionally, inner/anonymous classes (which Sun suggests) are equivalent to an instance method (Like the .net languages use) the example Sun conveys this message with shows just how impractical it really is. In place of a clear, straight-forward method, […]
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12 April 2006
On Object Oriented Programming
There are three ways to program: functionally, procedurally, or object-oriented-aly. Any Turing-complete language will effectively let you use any of those types for development. Stereotypically, though, Scheme is a functional language, C is a procedural language, and Java is an object-oriented language.
For my own real-world use, I tend to use a hybrid procedural/OOP style. […]
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13 March 2006
A feature request
I do wish PHP had some kind of preprocessor, macro system or way of manually aliasing functions. Right now, I use require_once(nsclass(”Library::User.DataAdapter”));. How I wish I could import “Library::User.DataAdapter”;. And while I could do:
function import ($path) {
$strRoot = “/var/www/html/”;
require_once ($strRoot . str_replace (”::”, “/”, $path) . “.php”);
}
It’s just not quite right. The file is included […]
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12 March 2006
Java Sucks
Java sucks.
I mean, as a language, its at least as nice as C++. But its too verbose, misses basic newfangled syntax like foreach, and has a questionable Perl-esque namespace specifying construct. package n; versus ./n/Person.java with no package shouldn’t be compilable. If subdirectories are allowed, then lose the package construct.
Lots of their standards are nice, […]