Java Quotes

I've never worked with the Java community.

I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually.

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.

In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages.

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.

This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.

Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either.

If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.