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Re: multiple inheritance in Java

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Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> writes:

> On 7/5/2013 6:29 PM, Jim Janney wrote:
>> Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>
>>> On 7/5/2013 12:04 PM, Jim Janney wrote:
>>>> On the other hand, and this is probably more important, the Java
>>>> community sets great store on always doing things the usual way, and
>>>> this has turned into a strength for the language: you can pull a
>>>> third-party library library into a project and expect that it will work
>>>> with and follow the same conventions as the rest of the code.  There are
>>>> languages that encourage the programmer to express his or her
>>>> individuality (Lisp comes to mind).  Java is not one of them.
>>>
>>> That is somewhat true.
>>>
>>> Java is primarily used in business programming. You need millions
>>> of Java programmers and that means that you will get some very good,
>>> a lot of acceptable and some complete hopeless. And the type
>>> of applications are often semi-important (no one will die if the
>>> application does not work but some one may lose money if the
>>> application does not work). In that context it is important that
>>> Java code written by mediocre programmers actually work. So the
>>> Java language is kept reasonable simple, framework are often
>>> pretty strict and there is a lot of emphasis on following
>>> all the conventions. Maybe a bit boring. Bit usually it works.
>>
>> I was simplifying, of course, but yes: those are the very qualities that
>> have led to the success of Java in business programming.  Not a niche
>> that I think anyone expected it to find, but in hindsight it makes
>> sense.
>
> And hard to call business programming a niche.
>
> I would expect it to be the majority of programming.

In terms of lines of code and total programmer-hours expended, that may
well be true.  Call it a large niche :-)

-- 
Jim Janney

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Re: multiple inheritance in Java Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2013-07-05 10:04 -0600
  Re: multiple inheritance in Java Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2013-07-05 11:17 -0600
    Re: multiple inheritance in Java Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-07-05 17:10 -0400
  Re: multiple inheritance in Java Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-07-05 12:26 -0700
    Re: multiple inheritance in Java Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2013-07-05 16:22 -0600
    Re: multiple inheritance in Java Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-07-05 21:52 -0400
  Re: multiple inheritance in Java Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-07-05 17:09 -0400
    Re: multiple inheritance in Java Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2013-07-05 16:29 -0600
      Re: multiple inheritance in Java Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-07-05 21:53 -0400
        Re: multiple inheritance in Java Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2013-07-05 22:31 -0600
          Re: multiple inheritance in Java Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-07-18 22:48 -0300

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