[geeks] Misuse of Java

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Wednesday, November 6, 2002 at 20:10:41 (+0000), David Cantrell wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Misuse of Java
>
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 03:03:08PM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> > Perl however sucks.
> 
> <sigh>
> 
> Why does it suck?  Perl, not the people who use it.  What language should
> I use instead, and how would it benefit me?
> 
> C sucks.  Java sucks.  Python sucks.  Ruby sucks.  Smalltalk sucks.  Lisp
> sucks.  Japanese sucks.  All languages suck in some ways,

Perl sucks worse than all the others and is a horrid bad language in
many many more ways than all the others combined.

> but none of those
> who rubbish perl have ever explained to me why perl sucks worse than any
> of the others.

Basically it boils down to the fact that Perl includes the grab bag of
all the "bad" language features that ever were, and it literally
directly encourages very bad programming practices.

Perl's proponents are even worse at encouraging all these bad things
than the language itself is, though of course they're only a product of
the environment they choose.

Jave, despite all its flaws, is almost infinitely better a computer
programming language than perl.

As Dave said there are already many huge and even some deeply complex
books detailing all these concepts about programming languages and
good/bad programming practices.

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