[Baypiggies] Java or Python?

[Harry Tormey]

It will be interesting to watch what gets built on the JVM over the
next few years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jython#Overview
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)#Platforms_and_license


On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:53:58AM -0700, Bill Janssen wrote:
> Rich Pixley <rich.pixley at palm.com> wrote:
> 
> > Personally, I think java's ok for a scripting language.  Much better
> > than perl.  But lacks the functional programming aspects of python
> > like first class aggregate data structures, iterators, etc.
> 
> I recently came across a 16-page if-then-else piece of Java code,
> apparently written that way because of Java's lack of support for
> hash-table literals...
> 
> Bill
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