Comments on: Java--

By: Bruce Miller

Bruce Miller — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:40:50 +0000

Why would c++ be called java–? I always thought of java as c++ with all the cool stuff taken out so as to not confuse the moron programmers.

By: Joe Darcy

Joe Darcy — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:05:50 +0000

When first seeing C++, Bill Joy wanted C++++-= instead!

By: Stefan Schulz

Stefan Schulz — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:45:55 +0000

Huh? This is strange. I think we should call C++ “log2(Java)” from now on. For once, as this is a binary view on languages, and for second, as the original idea was to discriminate the 0 bit language.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:24:23 +0000

@Ricky: Awesome. I think I’ll just start calling myself Ricky--.

BTW, if you’re writing -- in any of these comments, WordPress will eat one of them due to some encoding fiasco, so instead use: --

By: Ricky Clarkson

Ricky Clarkson — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:17:34 +0000

No. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that side-effects are the biggest problem in software development, so let’s stop using ++ and --, and instead start calling C++ “sqrt(Java)”. That has the added benefit that if you value Java highly, C++ is lower, and if you don’t value Java much, C++ is higher, as square roots of numbers between 0 and 1 are higher than the number (e.g., sqrt 0.25 is 0.5.).

1/Java works quite well there too.