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Re: multiple inheritance in Java

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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.

-- 
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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