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In article <OZ.96Feb15103918@nexus.yorku.ca>,
ozan s. yigit <oz@nexus.yorku.ca> wrote:
>Felix Sebastian Gallo [amongst other things]
>
>		... Heck, even Java might be useful to someone. ... 
>
>it already is, to more people than you are willing to admit. 

I wouldn't be so quick to characterise my likelihood of admission.
Whatever I might say about Java being laughable and negligible,
I think my record of designing an extension to Perl which provides
to Perl all of the positive features of Java (albeit implemented
correctly) speaks volumes about the respect that I have for the
basic ideas of the language.  I'm sure many people, starved for
those basic features and realizing how important they are for
the future of the Internet, truly and honestly believe that Java
is more than a warmed-over set-top-box scripting language failure
with massive architectural deficiencies and wholesale feature-
borrowing from the most unpleasant language to be inflicted on
the craft of software engineering since Cobol.

And, they might be right, who knows?  Allow me the position of
being affably happy with the alternative, which may prove to
find its own audience.

>also expect a ground-level java for more perl-like tasks later this year.

No offense meant to be sure, but I wouldn't use a ground-level java
for perl-like tasks if I were dragged kicking and screaming to the altar.
I don't use Fortran for writing video games, either.

On the other hand, expect a high-level perl for more java-like tasks later
this quarter.  And just maybe you'll find that it's better to use a
high-level language designed for data processing for data processing
(i.e. Internet work) than to use a low-level language designed for
operating systems implementation which has mutated into a strange
cross-paradigmed object oriented language which has mutated
into a curious scripting language.

Don't be afraid of the future, ozan. :)

Felix