It is safe to say that if Sun had spent all that money they spent pushing Java on pushing Tcl/Tk instead (which would have been quite feasible given that Java was a SunLabs project at the time) the world would be a different (and arguably better) place. Tcl/Tk is a lot better than its reputation. I know only of Tcl/Tk which requires, shall we say, quite a bit of getting used to. Yes, because Java in the 1990s gave you the joint benefit of both spending hours compiling stuff and waiting for the JVM to muddle through the code. Posted 15:42 UTC (Mon) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)Ī lot of technical people were thrilled with Java, because it FINALLY allowed to write large programs without spending hours compiling stuff or waiting for Perl interpreter to muddle through the code. Java provided a way to create programs that run without large changes pretty much on all major platforms (even classic Mac OS). Just-in-time compilation for Java – which was the technique that eventually did make a difference – became popular only later. In fact, compared to other interpreted languages of the time it was pretty slow. That didn't really matter with respect to Java because Java at the time was by no means »fast«, either. There was NO fast cross-platform language in 95-97. Few technical people wanted anything to do with it if they could help it at all – the big use case it was being touted for (browser applets) never really got off the ground, and for most everything else, many folks thought of Java as a kind of C++ with non-removable training wheels and abysmal performance. Eventually it had had so much money poured into it that it had to become a half-way usable language despite itself, but at least for the first five years of its existence it really, really sucked. As I said, it became popular only because Sun was flogging it to the suits. I realize that it's popular now to bash Java, but remember 90-s. Posted 7:51 UTC (Mon) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)Ĭome on.
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