what is the importance of java
yuganthi jayasinghe
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yuganthi jayasinghe
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posted 5 years ago
Quite apart from the importance of learning anything significant, Java represents the first effort to make an OO languange accessible to all but the authors of those who (quire rightly) were "pointing" us in the right direction.
C++ was a "superset" of C, and has always suffered as a result (arguments please), but Java redefined the boundaries of what a programmer "needs to be concerned with". You create objects, you use them, but otherwise the syntax is very C-like (a language very familiar to most of us old farts).
My question is: do you have a better alternative? Languages tend to evolve from other ones, because the syntax is understood.
Winston
yuganthi jayasinghe wrote:fred rosenberger wrote:Could you re-phrase your question?
wht is the purpose of learning java
why is it important
Quite apart from the importance of learning anything significant, Java represents the first effort to make an OO languange accessible to all but the authors of those who (quire rightly) were "pointing" us in the right direction.
C++ was a "superset" of C, and has always suffered as a result (arguments please), but Java redefined the boundaries of what a programmer "needs to be concerned with". You create objects, you use them, but otherwise the syntax is very C-like (a language very familiar to most of us old farts).
My question is: do you have a better alternative? Languages tend to evolve from other ones, because the syntax is understood.
Winston
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posted 5 years ago
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Why is Java important?
There's a hidden assumption in that question, namely the assumption that Java is important. But in fact it isn't important. There are 7 billion people in this world, and about 6.999 billion of them don't know how to program in Java and are perfectly happy being that way.
There's a hidden assumption in that question, namely the assumption that Java is important. But in fact it isn't important. There are 7 billion people in this world, and about 6.999 billion of them don't know how to program in Java and are perfectly happy being that way.
posted 5 years ago
I think the answer would be different for everyone. I learned it because I found it interesting, fun, and somewhat challenging.
Others learn it so they can have a career.
I'm sure other learns it because their teacher made them.
the answer to this depends on the answer to the previous question.
yuganthi jayasinghe wrote:
wht is the purpose of learning java
I think the answer would be different for everyone. I learned it because I found it interesting, fun, and somewhat challenging.
Others learn it so they can have a career.
I'm sure other learns it because their teacher made them.
yuganthi jayasinghe wrote:Why is it important
the answer to this depends on the answer to the previous question.
There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors
posted 5 years ago
I gave you a plus for philosophy, but I presume OP's question was grounded somewhere in programming.
Winston
Paul Clapham wrote:Why is Java important?..
I gave you a plus for philosophy, but I presume OP's question was grounded somewhere in programming.
Winston
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