Bruce Tate, author of the Jolt Award-winning Better, Faster, Lighter Java has an intriguing notion about the future of Java, and it's causing some ...
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Apr 15, 2011
Good introduction to software languages in general. Specifically making a good case for Ruby and dynamic languages...
Apr 20, 2009
Michael
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This book was likely an amazing read circa 2006, but in 2009 it's quaint at best and embarrassingly off target at worst.
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Jun 20, 2007
Mark
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If you've used/are using Java heavily, you should take a look at this book. The name could very well be 'beyond statically typed languages' but the author targets Java specifically. I thought it did a good job of pointing out the shortcomings (verbosity, inflexible syntax, proliferation of 'simple, lightweight' frameworks) of Java without coming across as an extended flame war.
Dec 01, 2010
David
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I'd have given this four stars when it first came out, but it's a bit dated now. Well, you'd expect any book speculating about the future of programming languages to be dated five years later. Still, it had/has some interesting things to say about strongly typed vs. weakly typed languages.
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