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→Java: All languages have good development tools available. Made arguments more technical, re-organized them.
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* Very stable. | * Very stable. | ||
* Fast. | * Fast. | ||
* Popular, although more in Enterprise apps and less in Open Source than scripting languages. | |||
* Allows for easy web application installation. | * Allows for easy web application installation. | ||
* Adopted by many enterprises. | * Adopted by many enterprises. | ||
* Strongly typed language. This makes it easier to detect errors before runtime. | * Strongly typed language. This makes it easier to detect errors before runtime. | ||
* Secure. Policy files can be used to control what the JVM is allowed to do on yur system. | * Secure. Policy files can be used to control what the JVM is allowed to do on yur system. | ||
=== Cons === | === Cons === | ||
* | * Generally slower to write in than scripting languages. | ||
* Nothing like CPAN's client-side module installer until Java 7 (see JSR 277) | * Nothing like CPAN's client-side module installer until Java 7 (see JSR 277). | ||
* Code is | * The standard Java Classpath is not FOSS, but Sun's OpenJDK is. | ||
* Code is sometimes is more verbose than in other languages. Java 5 improves on this. | |||
== PHP 5 or 6 == | == PHP 5 or 6 == | ||