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Originally Posted by duxx0r
I did my fair share of lame subjects at uni, but I believe that more thought goes into their choice of programming languages then some of their other units.
What about most mobile phones on the market? To my knowledge, a great deal of them ship with java.
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University people, at least in my country, live in an ivory tower. They
do not pay attention to the market needs. Their job simply does not depend on it. They school people in the art of becoming an academic. Perpetuating their own kind.
Suddenly, Holland wakes up to the realization that our education system is not producing highly skilled technical people anymore. Suddenly it dawns on our government that maybe some cooperation with the commercial sector is required, so that curricula at Universities are better oriented towards the needs of the job market. But the Universities are in an uproar. "We can't have 'commercialization' of the educational system!" they holler. So they teach us Haskell.
But this thread is about Java.
Java is a wonderful language. I like the ease with which you can write complex programs, solve complex algorithms with a few lines of code, make an entire GUI based application that will run on any platform out there. Garbage collection is a bliss. The latest java interpreters are even almost fast enough to compete with compiled code.
It's just a shame it hasn't caught on. That was my entire point.