Programming In Java

When Java was invented its security model and run anywhere platform where touted as the wave of the future. Too bad the time is now and these features don't quite work as advertised. Some claim that Microsft's “Embrace and Extend” of the Java language crippled Sun's Write Once, Read Many promise, since their implementation of Java differs from the canonical one in many respects.

As such a majority of the computer industry has left the Java platform to rot in the den of iniquity that is its birthplace. Colleges, however, notorious for teaching things that will never be useful in the real world, have latched on to Java as this wave of the future. The result is a steady stream of computer science graduates whos only programming experience is in an obsolete language.

(Not so fast! Java seems to be staging a serious comeback on the mobile phone. Because - unlike the near monoculture of the PC world - there's genuine competition between operating systems there it seems that a cross-platform language may have a niche at last.)

(Ah, yes, the language at the top of Tiobe's list for most of the past seven years is obsolete. Give me a break.)

(Obsolete, unless you want to make money. Every programming job I have available is a Java one. Get over it.)