Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Joshua Cranmer Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: tools for programming applets Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 23:34:34 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <028d2009-98b7-43a3-b02d-83eaa89db79e@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 03:34:35 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="bAymlyY9SkaJNa8Tz2rerw"; logging-data="26301"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/wkhy3Cr/Br2JDZVKXmbIrO11hihRF9es=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16pre) Gecko/20110305 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.10pre In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:vmpboSHT/SVEIvxadIMgZ0JAtTA= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4439 On 05/22/2011 10:17 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> 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. Nope, that's original in JavaScript. It's as new to JavaScript as classes are to Java. >> 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? How about Swing? Java's graphics APIs are not so shoddy you need a massive library just to do anything sane with them ;-) -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth