Archive for April, 2008

The quiet revolt against a bad language

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

I’ve been bashing Java almost as long as it’s been out, having been let down repeatedly by it, and Sun’s empty promises about the problems that it would solve. “Write once, run anywhere.” Yeah…right. “Java is a real language, those scripting languages are just toys.” Uh huh.
Meanwhile, the bulk of my programming problems are [...]

Putting corn back on the stick

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008