Rogers and BitTorrent: another datapoint

[Ilya Palagin]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 02:09:28PM -0400, Michael MacLeod wrote:
>   
>> So let me get this straight... you rate OO languages based on your ability
>> to write procedural code in them?
>>     
>
> No I just think knowing one language well is useful, so the language
> better fit more than one purpose.  Given a lot of things are not done
> well in OO, java is not a good tool for many things.  It is too focused
> on the current fad in programming languages. :)  Or perhaps java is the
> current fad in programming languages.  Programmers are expensive, just
> make the customer throw more resources at it to make up for us using
> this inefficient high level technology that does everything for us just
> inefficiently.  And OO is still a bad fit for a lot of problems.  Java
> can't be used unless you make it OO.
>   
It can.  Use static methods and forget about objects, think of methods 
as of procedures. 
Does compiling "hello world" give enough experience to consider Java to 
be so bad? :-)

Regards,
Ilya.


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