Java Quotes

Java is C++ without the guns, clubs and knives.

I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through.

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

If I were to pick a language to use today other than Java, it would be Scala

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

Java isn't platform independent; it is a platform

I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.

This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.

Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either.

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.

Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually.

Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.

If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.

I love coffee, I love tea, I love the Java Jive, and it loves me. Coffee and tea and the Java and me, A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup.

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

(In response to Java) Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong.

I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.

A class, in Java, is where we teach objects how to behave.

If Sun were to hand the management of Java over to a committee of monkeys, would it be more successful?

C is declining somewhat in usage compared to C++, and maybe Java, but perhaps even more compared to higher-level scripting languages. It's still fairly strong for the basic system-type things.