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wallflower on Oct 1, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Java is dead, but you'll learn to love it

Dislike it or hate it, Java is the COBOL of modern times. Java won - it's firmly entrenched in Fortune 500 Enterprise companies.

cema on Oct 1, 2009 [–]

Yes, Java is strong. And JVM is good. So, instead of fighting the big guy, a smart way is to coopt it (see Scala, Groovy, Clojure, etc).

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