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Originally posted by Prince
It's painfully slow. It's needlessly verbose (just compare 'print' to 'System.out.println', for example). The GUIs that can be produced with it are really fuckin' ugly.
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(Emphasis, obviously, mine)
I agree 100% with this statement. One of the things that turned me off Java was
itsIncrediblyLongAndConvolutedFunctionNamesThatAreImpossibleToRemember();
My experience coding in java has not been enjoyable at all. thoseDamnFunctionsAndClasses take too long to type, especially if you don't remember them. I mean ... "ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException"?!
I mean, I agree that in some ways it's a good thing to have some sort of syntax that's somewhat easy to remember (as opposed to asm), but Java's *way* across the line. I prefer stuff like c, which I actually prefer to code in. Call me crazy, but I'd take pointers and crazy typecasting over longAssPointlessFunctionNames() any day =)
I do recognize Java's strengths though - namely that it's multi-platform, and therefore I can play online games with other people (being as I'm on Linux
) Stupid Macromedia and its Shockwave..........