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** Although some tasks can be written very quickly in Perl/Python/Ruby (for example a SOAP client in just a couple lines of code) I'm not sure that is a fair comparison. Although the syntax of those scripting languages is inherently more compact, I don't think this is a fair compairson since the compactness (while impressive in showing off the language) makes the code not only less readable/maintainable, but a good Java IDE or set of Emacs macros will take care of writing/autocompleting most of that for you anyway. | ** Although some tasks can be written very quickly in Perl/Python/Ruby (for example a SOAP client in just a couple lines of code) I'm not sure that is a fair comparison. Although the syntax of those scripting languages is inherently more compact, I don't think this is a fair compairson since the compactness (while impressive in showing off the language) makes the code not only less readable/maintainable, but a good Java IDE or set of Emacs macros will take care of writing/autocompleting most of that for you anyway. | ||
* The Java Classpath is not FOSS | * The Java Classpath is not FOSS | ||
** This is both wrong and irrelevent :). The Java Classpath project is GPL'd and even if it wasn't, its a third party project. Last week Sun released *THE* standard JDK as open source code. | |||
** It should be mentioned that Java's licensing is rapidly changing and I believe Tomcat can actually be run under 100% OSS components | ** It should be mentioned that Java's licensing is rapidly changing and I believe Tomcat can actually be run under 100% OSS components | ||
* Nothing like CPAN's client-side module installer | * Nothing like CPAN's client-side module installer | ||