is java the bitch child of all the other programming languages?

[John D]

is java the bitch child of all the other programming languages?

[Matthew L]

Not all of them. It was James Gosling's approach to fix some problems he thought C++ didn't solve. So it's more a derivation of that than say, Prolog or Scheme. IMHO.

[Nutulca]

Not all, but i will ask my friends they work for Sun.

[ariefwt]

Not all of programming languages, only about 23 of them, including C/C++, LISP, Prolog, etc.

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(Arief Wibowo, C.Hts, RM)
Computer Programmer and Alternative Therapist

[mithunrockey]

Java is the premium of all other languages !!!!

[Gopinath M]

no. Java can be considered as a distant cousin of C++.

[Smewbl]

No, because one could chart a geneological path of imperative languages which lead from FORTRAN, say, to Pascal to C to Java. Also, Java's syntax and usage were deliberately chosen and relatively well-thought out--unlike C++, which was nice in the early 90's but then devolved into today's ugly mess.

A truly illegitimate child of programming languages would represent the union of imperative and functional languages. In fact, this is embodied in "functional perl," which was conceived when LISP got BASIC drunk on half an appletini, and then they went back to LISP's grungy apartment and had a one-night stand.

Or maybe that resulted in Ruby?

perl.plover.com (http://perl.plover.com/yak/fp/</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperative_programming</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming)

[Andy T]

Nope, but I would say yeah if the name is Python.

Java is a superficial family member under the ALGOR line. First application-level VM for the masses.

[ehossain]

java is the ******* daddy of all other language