Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 9th Mar 2006 16:59 UTC, submitted by kmarius
"We recently received an email asking for a 'What Is Java' entry on the O'Reilly Network What Is site. Who could possibly not know what Java is in 2006? After ten years of books, websites, and conferences, doesn't everyone know what Java is? Apparently not. After all, things have changed. For every dusty definition that speaks of applets and Just-In-Time compilers, there are new directions and new realities that have settled in, understood by many, yet not always completely documented."
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2006-02-10
"True java has gone forward in the performance area but please never call it "high-performance".
I don't care that ackermann was faster than in C. I care for real life applications and requirements and quite frankly the gargantuan RAM requirements by any java app is horrid"Java IS very high performance if I don't have to take the time to recompile code for several platforms. Get over it: RAM is cheap, time is expensive!Sure, Java isn't the tool of choice for everything (games, etc.) but it certainly has it's place on a developer's workstation.