Anil Gangolli

Why Java?

A friend of mine, (one who knew me in my days as a C/Unix hacker and then later as a C++ hacker), seems to have been surprised to hear me say that I prefer to develop as much as possible in Java these days. He pointed me to this recent ACM article on writing good code in any language .

After all, what’s this language favoritism anyway? Language features are overrated. You can write good code in any language.

I agree with most of the points of that article in the abstract, but I still hold a strong conviction that language does matter, and here’s why I like Java

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Posted at 11:47AM Feb 04, 2005 in dev  |  Permalink  |  Comments[1]