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Compilers

From: fw at deneb.enyo.de (Florian Weimer)
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:53:25 +0100

* Crispin Cowan:

ljknews wrote:

     2. The compiler market is so immature that some people are still
        using C, C++ and Java.

I'm with you on the C and C++ argument, but what is immature about Java?
I thought Java was a huge step forward, because for the first time, a
statically typesafe language was widely popular.


Java is not statically typesafe, see the beloved ArrayStoreException
(and other cases, depending what you mean by "statically typesafe").

And if you allow for more dynamic typing, Visual Basic gained more
widespread usage even earlier. 8-P

Current thread:

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- Compilers McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) (Dec 21)
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    - Compilers J. M. Seitz (Dec 21)
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    - Compilers Crispin Cowan (Dec 25)
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