OK, this is my pet peeve so I'm going to whine.
STOP THE MADNESS!
This insane forced march of everything to Java for everything has got to stop. Apart from the fact that Java is a failure as a platform independent development tool and that its libraries are obviously quickly hacked and poorly thought out, its performance is generally slow slow slow.
Java is just a craze. It will go away the way C++ did. Ignore the distraction. If you are looking for a sign - then I'd say that the day Java gets templates is the day it dies (although it will likely take a long time to fall over).
...or: Winning Ignorance
Excuse me, I'd like to talk about a small idea: creating a Squeak VM for Java Using the CCodeGenerator engine, I think would be not so difficult to generate a JavaCodeGenerator class for building java source code
for the
VM. We will have Squeak running in a JavaVM, perhaps a bit slowly. After a bit of working, we can try to integrate the java GC, JavaBeans and the Security concepts of Java into Squeak, generating a hybrid VM and the Smalltalk of the future.
A lot of java-students will look with interest to a Java-based implementation of Smalltalk, and start to download the SqueakVM....
This is only an idea. I know the efficency problem 'd be not so
tiny and
so I am only talking about it.... ...someone interested?
-- // Giovanni Giorgi e-mail:
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// Master Thesis at http://mars.sal.disco.unimi.it/~giorgi // Student & (ex)Tutor at Depart. of Computer Science of Milan, Italy.
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