On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 19:36 +0800, Miguel Paraz wrote: > Now if this is on ideological grounds, GPL (Sun) and > Apache License (Harmony) implementations are on the way.
No, I'm not Ian :-). It's on aesthetic grounds mostly. the APIs have gotten too large I can't even keep track of what APIs are available, let alone learn more than the basic APIs. Apart from that, I could never stand how gross some APIs are (Calendar, etc). When CompSci-happy people get all hyper about design patterns, java is what falls out of their heads. I like my APIs to be minimal and not excessively general. the design choices made by the java people may be appropriate for extremely general enterprise-y software and enterpricey consultants, but it's just plain ugly to me. I'm going to have to play around with java again, of course. but it's not going to be because I enjoy it. tiger _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
