Underrated post. Very nice user.
ITT: silly ideas we have
Nathaniel Ross
Matthew James
We literally already have that. And there's a reason why we don't use it.
Grayson Collins
Languages get standardized because they are industry standard (not the other way round) and there are competing implementations. C, BASIC, and LISP have standards because everybody had their own compiler that had different, mutually incompatible features. Java and Python have never been standardized because there is only one vendor peddling each of these, and Java is undeniably industry standard.
Brody Scott
we should build programs on top of HTML files!
Wyatt Thompson
Why not MSWord documents?
William Thomas
i like the trolling potential of this idea
Ryan Kelly
So you favor Java for programming?
William Diaz
That too! And PDF!
Xavier Diaz
Are you trying to tell me that a language with millions of pajeet programmers and universities dedicated to spewing out more isn't industry standard? This has nothing to do with my feelings on the language, and everything to do with observable facts.
As for my feelings, I think Java gets a bad rap. Mainly because few of those Java programmers transition into C/C++ well: most of them will leak memory like a sieve and bog down their projects with their inability to manage memory. The language itself isn't all bad, but most of its programmers are crap.
I think Simulink does visual programming well. The domain is accustomed to the complex diagrams that it creates, and it allows for turning groups of operations into boxed components, mitigating the complexity issue.
Christian Smith
The other reason is that it was utter crap 20 years ago. The language went a long way since then, but a lot of people learned it back then and vowed to never touch it again without a hazmat suit. That's where a lot of bad opinions about Java come from.
Kind of like a lot of C++ haters had learned it in early nineties, well before the standard library even got standardised.