Bruce is an author of very famous Thinking in C++ and Thinking in Java books.
streaming video (2 hrs 16 mins)
on first 50 mins, he covers
- garbage collection is the way for new languages to go -- program managability
- problems with Java's checked exception
- Java just has too many 'words' (too long code) -- maintainability
- classpath nightmare -- At the very least we need a equivalent of "which" (in Unix)
- Applets have failed
- Truly "Write Once, Run Anywhere" from other camps -- Microsoft XAML + Aurora vs Macromedia Flash + MXML + Flex
- Java on Desktop
- Eclipse 3.0 as a rich client platform
- Java is good on server
- developers: write once learning curve (Java is bad. too complex)
- users: seamlessly run anywhere (Java is bad, too complex)
- JDK 5.0 new features: generics, autoboxing, enumerations, attributes/metadata, new concurrency, syntax improvements (e.g. for-each) -- competition is good
- ...
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