title: Who said using Java isn't any fun? link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/who-said-using-java-isnt-any-fun/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 132 created: 2010/08/05 14:41:43 created_gmt: 2010/08/05 14:41:43 comment_status: open post_name: who-said-using-java-isnt-any-fun status: publish post_type: post

Who said using Java isn't any fun?

So, last week Eclipse broke because Oracle pushed a new update for Java that changed the company name field from “Sun Microsystems” to “Oracle”. The comments attached to a Slashdot story about the problem were merciless. Being predominently a Linux geek publication, the expected animus to Java in general was right out front. Here’s a sampling:

Lemme guess, you’re sweating bullets wondering if you’re going to spend all night pissing on fires while the C guys laugh at you and drink beer?

Of course, the “real problem” isn’t that Oracle changed the company field, it’s that “Java programmers still continue to use poor programming practices despite layers and layers of ‘best practice’ crud”.

The problem is the apps that were poorly coded and assumed that Java would be owned by Sun for the next thousand years. They deserved to break.

Of course over in the perl community we also like to run down Java whenever we’re able. My favorite is from Perl vs Java on WikiVS:

Regular expressions

Executing code in the replacement part of a regular expression search and replace:

Perl: s/The temperature is (d+)C/’The temperature is’ . celsius2Fahrenheit($1) . ‘F’)/e

Java: impossible

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