[Gllug] One more time...

[Tethys]

Nix writes:

>>> ... java sucks.
>> 
>> It certainly does. Looks like they're adding some features in 1.5
>> which will make it suck less though.
>
>... but they *still* have no templates, higher-order functions, a decent
>macro system (hell, any macro system at all, even a crappy one like cpp)
>or anything like that.
>
>It's a real shame. It could have been a real language.

Actually, most of my complaints with Java are about the implementation[1]
rather than the language itself -- although I agree it's in dire need
of a macro system. I doubt it's likely to get one, though -- they're
touting its absence as a selling point...

Tet

[1] The ability to debug it when it goes wrong being the major problem
    I'm hitting at the moment.

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