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Beyond Java
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Bruce Tate
Bruce Tate, author of the Jolt Award-winning Better, Faster, Lighter Java has an intriguing notion about the future of Java, and it's causing some agitation among Java developers. Bruce believes Java is abandoning its base, and conditions are ripe for an alternative to emerge.
In Beyond Java, Bruce chronicles the rise of the most successful language of all time, and then la ...more
In Beyond Java, Bruce chronicles the rise of the most successful language of all time, and then la ...more
Paperback, 208 pages
Published
September 29th 2005
by O'Reilly Media
(first published September 22nd 2005)
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This book is old enough that given the idea- looking at the software development community for potential replacements for Java - it threatens to be obsolete. Fortunately a good bit of the book is also about how Java got where it is, and what its biggest problems are. Given that (a) I've been writing Android apps - in Java of course, and (b) the system that I work on professionally has pieces written in both Java and Python, this is a conversation we have at work often.
Overall the book is still s ...more
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Quick read. Some limitations of Java pointed out. It says, "Java is for elite developers"
More about how Ruby and Rails will dominate future of programming language.
More about how Ruby and Rails will dominate future of programming language.
Has insights that still apply today. History repeats.
If you've used/are using Java heavily, you should take a look at this book. The name could very well be 'beyond statically typed languages' but the author targets Java specifically. I thought it did a good job of pointing out the shortcomings (verbosity, inflexible syntax, proliferation of 'simple, lightweight' frameworks) of Java without coming across as an extended flame war.
I'd have given this four stars when it first came out, but it's a bit dated now. Well, you'd expect any book speculating about the future of programming languages to be dated five years later. Still, it had/has some interesting things to say about strongly typed vs. weakly typed languages.
The first (and so far only) O'Reilly book that I found very poorly edited. Tate's point were good, but drowning in this rambling, repetitive mess of a book.
This book was likely an amazing read circa 2006, but in 2009 it's quaint at best and embarrassingly off target at worst.
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