Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!lust.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: tools for programming applets Followup-To: comp.lang.java.programmer Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 14:17:43 +1200 Organization: Geek Central Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <028d2009-98b7-43a3-b02d-83eaa89db79e@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 118-92-95-178.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Trace: lust.ihug.co.nz 1306117063 8840 118.92.95.178 (23 May 2011 02:17:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ihug.co.nz NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 02:17:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/4.4.7 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4436 In message , Joshua Cranmer wrote: > On 05/22/2011 08:26 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> Why do you think JavaScript/DHTML/AJAX has grown by leaps and bounds, >> while Java, which in some ways was a pioneer of the dynamic Web, has >> stagnated? > > Why do you insist on bashing Java in a Java newsgroup? I don’t have to; I just point out the facts, and leave others to get angry about them. > JavaScript itself has had no more fundamental changes than Java has had. > As far as I can see, the only truly new things (i.e., not present in any > implementation for some time) were the introduction of functional methods > to Array, i.e., arr.forEach, arr.filter, etc. Functions as first-class objects. > Now, let me end by pointing out that Java has been able to do all of > these things for over a decade. And yet nobody was ever able to do them. Where is the Java equivalent of jQuery, for example?