MIT Grad Students vs. Ga Tech Sophomores (Score 1)

JSP is fantastically simpler than "J2EE", which is the recommended-by-Sun way of building applications, but still it seems to be too complex for seniors and graduate students in the MIT computer science program, despite the fact that they all had at least one semester of Java experience in 6.170.

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That's funny. I had a couple of sophomore co-ops down here at Georgia Tech build a significant J2EE app with JSPs, servlets, and an Oracle back end in a semester. They had only one semester of prior Java experience. Perhaps you should beef up your CS curriculum up there at the "Georgia Tech of the North!"
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In all seriousness, I enjoyed your article. I thought you were too hard on Java, but Java's honor has been amply defended in other posts.

I think you're too critical of your affinity for Lisp. After starting out with Pascal and the C languages (C, C++, Java) and discovering functional programming later in life, I find myself drawn to Lisp (and ML, and ...) - especially for AI. Paul Graham has a pretty good article about the timeliness of Lisp that may make you feel a little better about your "Lisp zealotry."

Happy Hacking!
Chris