Comment on Yahoo Open Sources S4 Real-Time MapReduce FrameworkparentComments−swah15yI was actually thinking of Ruby/Python folks, perhaps there is a group that will skip Java/C/C++ entirely.Against C there is always the "Java makes it more difficult for you to mess things up" argument...−beagle315yYep. It's much harder to mess things up when you use regular expression.Between C, Python and Jython, I don't think there's a single reason left to use Java.
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I was actually thinking of Ruby/Python folks, perhaps there is a group that will skip Java/C/C++ entirely.
Against C there is always the "Java makes it more difficult for you to mess things up" argument...
Yep. It's much harder to mess things up when you use regular expression.
Between C, Python and Jython, I don't think there's a single reason left to use Java.