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"Java has good parts!" - by richhaase on 01-MAY-2013
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When Java was first being adopted by enterprises I was working as a Solaris SysAdmin. Java was the bane of my existence. It was slow. The JVM was horribly buggy and required half a servers available memory just to start up. (Which seemed to take about half a minute on a good day). Not to mention the stupid overly verbose syntax. I hated it with a passion.
In the recent, years I've become aware that this hatred of Java had to go. More and more I was finding that programmers were building cool, fast, and reliable systems in Java. Some of my favorites are Hadoop, HBase, ZooKeeper, and jClouds. But every time I tried to program in Java I felt a deep revulsion. An ingrained hatred of the language that had caused me years of annoyance. Why should I support my old nemesisr? The best reasons I have ever found are enumerated in this extremely readable and informative book. Java: The Good Parts really proved to me that Java is not an appalling language. It's simply a language, like any other, that has it's strengths and weaknesses. Jim Waldo does an excellent job sharing his experiences with Java's strengths, and he even manages to inject a bit of humor.
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"Java: The Good Parts" - by Eoverh on 09-JUN-2010
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It doesn't pretend to teach you anything but offers an interesting view of Java from someone who was somewhat near it at its beginning
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