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Java
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see Ted Lewis, IEEE Computer, March 1997, p. 136
The dream: UNCOL
- Java is pervasive
- remember, most of Java is just warmed-up C/C++
UNCOL = Universal Common Language
- (1963) Algol -> PL/I -> Pascal -> Ada -> C++ -> ...
- Java as UNCOL: the dial-tone of the Internet
if todays languages are inadequate for Software then Java must be inadequate too ...
Hostages of legacy code
- our responsibility is that future applications (built with Java) are well-behaved legacy systems
- US DOD:
Is Java doomed to repeat history?
- elegant minimalism is one of the goals of Java,
remember Pascal, a toy language! - Java lacks IO, OS support ...
Java = watered-down C++, retrofitting Pascal
Problems
- syntax: int i = ++i--;
- unruly scope rules: C++ plus f i n a l, n a t i v e, s y n c h r o n i z e d, ...
- threads: potential deadlocks
Java: a better mousetrap?
- requirements: no support (assert)
- defacts: syntax, non-standard APIs
- components: Beans ActiveX, CORBA, OpenDoc
- cycle time: Java does little to accommodate Internet time, like script languages do
- complexity: Java does not advance the intellectual frontier!
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