[lug] Software patents

[Zan Lynx]

Lee Woodworth wrote:
> Nate Duehr wrote:
>> I'm not even going to guess why Java took off... it's about the most  
>> bloated crap I've ever seen.  Marketing money I guess.  It doesn't do  
>> anything that a good developer library and some discipline in code  
>> writing couldn't accomplish ten years earlier.  Its appeal still  
>> baffles me.
> 
> When was the last time you seriously looked at it? Do you know what
> dependency injection is? ORM (which is being copied for .net)? ....

He's got a point.  There's nothing Java does that cannot be done in 
native code or in a virtual machine language like LLVM.

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