October 2009
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
13h
English
This chapter covers
“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail,” American psychologist Abraham Maslow once observed.
Language advocacy is a popular pastime with many programmers, but what many fail to realize is that programming languages are like tools: each is good at some things and next to useless at others. Java, inspired as it was by prior art like C and Smalltalk, sports a solid general-purpose syntax that gets the job done with the minimum of fuss in the majority of cases. Unfortunately, ...