CPAN Shifts Focus 220
cascadefx writes "Looks like CPAN has changed its focus to support Java now. A look at their page shows that is is now CJAN, the Comprehensive Java Archive Network where you will find all things Java." This should be a great boon
to Java, a language renown for, well, sucking. But at the expense of the greatest
of all languages? It's just too sad for me to express in words. I mean, who uses java anyway?
make it stop! (Score:4, Insightful)
Who uses java. (Score:5, Insightful)
Slashcode is/was a perfect example of how easy it is to make Perl unreadable.
(-1) Troll (Score:3, Insightful)
It's true! The editors are trolling us now!
Moderation on Slashdot Stories (Score:2, Insightful)
Atleast there are no more stupid pigeon stories
And I was excited (Score:4, Insightful)
Java has a better library structure than perl, with each package being in a well defined place in the classpath. Also documentation for Java libraries tends to be better because of the javadoc comments that everybody writes. Regression tests and dependency checking for java libraries would be cool.
Luckily, there are great places to turn for java libraries even without CPAN supporting them. The Apache Project [apache.org] has many classes that I consider essential now. The Giant Java Tree [gjt.org] has thousands of open source libraries. Not to mention the stuff I've written [ostermiller.org].
Comment removed (Score:5, Insightful)
To all the whiners... im trying for a -5 flame (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Who uses java. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:make it stop! (Score:4, Insightful)
Of course, if Taco had any cojones on him at all, one of these years, he'd just redirect the front page to a certain site [goatse.cx] for 24 hours...
Re:You can fry an egg on my head right now... (Score:2, Insightful)
Oh, and Java Sucks... [Of course, now we both have to decide if I'm trolling or not. By not replying (the only effective method of dealing with trolls), we can both assert that this is a troll].
OH MY GOD (Score:3, Insightful)
Moderators DO have a sense of humor.
Props to all the fine trolls, and the not so fine ones.