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| Authored by: s65_sean on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 11:23 AM EDT |
making design decisions that almost everyone can live
with
Doesn't Oracle have veto power over everything that the
committee supposedly decides upon?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 11:41 AM EDT |
For the excellent attorneys reading Groklaw:
I started learning Java a year after it came out. The
language syntax itself has 50 reserved words (example "int"
means integer type of variable) and 40 operators (example:
"+" which means add two numbers or concatenate two strings,
as in "Hello, " + "world!".
The set of packages for version 1.0 was about 8, including
java.lang, java.io, and java.awt, mentioned above. Assuming
20 classes within each package, and 20 functions (aka
"methods") for each class would mean a total of 3,200
functions, or extra "words" in the language. By comparison,
the RPG language used on the IBM midrange computers had
about 120 reserved words (we called them opcodes).
Fortunately, many of the Java functions consistently used
short verbs in the function name, which made life
considerably easier for new programmers. The real task was
not so much learning it all, but learning what you could
ignore until you needed to know it.
Each version of Java added more packages. Last time I
looked, Java SE contained about 120 packages. Doing the
math, I estimate there are at least 48,000 functions in the
language.
Over time, many of the functions have been officially
deprecated, which will still work but a professional
programmer will avoid using. Frr example, the original Date
class has been pretty much wiped out in favor of the
Calendar class. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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