{"id":244,"date":"2003-09-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-23T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2003\/09\/24\/177\/"},"modified":"2003-09-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-23T22:00:00","slug":"177","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2003\/09\/24\/177\/","title":{"rendered":"Java is the SUV of programming tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/philg\/2003\/09\/20#a1762\" title=\"Java is the SUV of programming tools\">Philip Greenspun<\/a>: &#8222;A project done in Java will cost 5 times as much, take twice as long, and be harder to maintain than a project done in a scripting language such as PHP or Perl.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2001, Paul Graham wrote a very nice related essay, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/javacover.html\" title=\"Java's Cover\">Java&#8217;s Cover<\/a>: &#8222;Over time, hackers develop a nose for good (and bad) technology. I thought it might be interesting to try and write down what made Java seem suspect to me.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Greenspun: &#8222;A project done in Java will cost 5 times as much, take twice as long, and be harder to maintain than a project done in a scripting language such as PHP or Perl.&#8220; Back in 2001, Paul Graham wrote a very nice related essay, Java&#8217;s Cover: &#8222;Over time, hackers develop a nose for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}