Java is Object BASIC.
It shares with BASIC a fascination for strings, and deep in its heart of hearts is really an interpreted language (anything that runs as wild with introspection as does Java isn't really comfortable with this whole “compiled” idea).
There's just something about Java that makes you start aching for an Evaluate statement.
And an ultimate Object base class is just a stupid idea, OK? That's something C++ most definitely got right.
But it's still better than C.
posted 20:05