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Breaking the Rules - Making Java Fun with Mirah
With any luck this should become a series of postings on new and emerging languages and I am going to begin on familiar territory with, somewhat counter intuitively, one of the most widely adopted languages of them all; Java. Java has gained a bad reputation within the communities of the up and coming dynamic languages; Python, Ruby and their peers, for its perceived bloat, boilerplate and seemingly endless determination to over-engineer. Goslings decision to recycle much of the C++ syntax for his new language was a pragmatic one at the time, aiming to ensure the language the best possible chance of survival and adoption in a world heavy on C family programmers. It worked, oh did it work. Unfortunately for Java though a largely unforeseen movement was taking place within the backstreets of programmer land where language terseness, readability and programmer enjoyment were being prioritised over a programs computational efficiency.
“Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs” - James Gosling, Co-Inventor Of Java
