Re: Java

[Dorai Sitaram <address@hidden>]

[Doug McLagan]
> Paul Prescod wrote:
> 
> ..."Java is so much more convenient and easy to use than C++
> that it is a major step forward."
> 
> ...[Java] popularizes many important concepts that had
> not caught on before:
> 
>  * garbage collection
>  * virtual machines
>  * reflection
>  * large standard library
> 
> Considering how long the programming world was VM-phobic and GC-phobic,
> Java did us all a big favour...
> 
> - Paul Prescod
> 
> --------------------
> 
> My newbie question is:  if in a few years a language other than Java is the
> dominant big-systems language, how will we fill in these blanks:
> 
> ____ is so much more convenient and easy to use than Java
> that it is a major step forward.  It popularizes many important 
> concepts that had not caught on before:
> 
>  * _____________
>  * _____________
>  * _____________
>  * _____________

* s-expressive syntax
* higher-order procedures
* first-class continuations 
* macros that work

--d