On Aug 4, 4:23 pm, Paul Rubin <no.em...@nospam.invalid> wrote: > Java was also on the OO bandwagon of the 1990's, which > translated into good marketing back then, but is part of the cause of > the massive bureaucracy and bloat in the Java runtime environment. C++ > seems to have made something of a comeback because of this, and Java now > has generics patterned after C++'s.
When I first studied Java, my first impression of the language was that it had a Prime Directive that, "other than single inheritance and being kinda like C, don't do anything C++ did". Not a bad policy, actually. However, omitting generics was probably the second worst thing about Java (the worst thing being the awful AWT design). Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
