Entries from September 2002 ↓

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a Java anti-fan. As such, one of my duties is to attempt to correct the misleading Java propaganda. But I have to make sure I don’t go too far and create misleading propaganda of my own.

Someone recently asked: Can Java technology beat Perl on its home turf with pattern matching in large files?

Given the supplied answer, a more accurate question would have been: “Can a poorly written Java program beat a really badly written Perl program?”

I could easily retort with another stupid example showing Perl code kicking Java’s ass, but that wouldn’t help. We need a more objective way of measuring how crap Java is
The Language Level system by Capers Jone is a nice way to rate a language, but other empirical comparisons are needed.

Bob went to the doctors a few weeks ago. While waiting in the clinic, he started to read through some of the magazines on the little table. Between two of the magazines he found a green ring-bound document decorated with the clinic’s logo. After skimming through a couple of pages, he realised that it was actually part of a confidential file about some of the other patients. He immediately went and told the receptionist and returned the file. Bob told a few of us about his experience, but never revealed any of the information he read, and the incident was almost forgotten…

Yesterday Bob was visited by a police officer who imformed him that he has been accused of some sort of criminal trespass because he read part of the confidential file.

Something isn’t right!

I haven’t been blogging for quite a while, as you can see. I’m going to start to post historic entries…sometime before Christmas.