Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

Tom Vilot tom at vilot.com
Wed Jan 5 17:57:21 PST 2005


Anthony Atkielski wrote:

>I tend to agree.  Are people still using Java?  
>

Yeah, I think so ..... strange as it seems to me.

>Perl seems to do just about everything.
>

Agreed. OTOH, Perl is quite idiomatic, and that can be a real hurdle. 
Plus, there are so *many* ways to do things in Perl, that it can be easy 
to write what another programmer would consider opaque, impenetrable code.

Python seems to be a nice intermediary.


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