On Thursday 28 August 2003 11:16, you wrote: > There is no such language which performs in all situations well. C is > fast, but you have to code really careful and double-check your source. > Erlang was designed for telephony tasks (message passing, ...). Prolog > is superior in expert systems. Perl is real good for quick string hacks. > Python scales better than Perl for larger projects and is good for rapid > prototyping. C++ scales well in large-scale software designs which needs > to be fast... C, Erlang, Prolog, Perl, Python and C++ are all refered to in the above paragraph. Java is conspicuouly not mentioned. I construe that to mean Java is so much lacking in useful qualities to serve any practical purpose.
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