Java Rules-Part 1.

Hi folks,
Sorry for the procrastinated effort of mine to techo-nize my blog!!

Let me start with a basic comparision of languages..This has nothing to do with Java,but just a vision of a programmer.

	Eiffel	Smalltalk	Ruby	Java	C#	C++
Object-Orientation	Pure	Pure	Pure	Hybrid	Hybrid	Hybrid / Multi-Paradigm
Static / Dynamic Typing	Static	Dynamic	Dynamic	Static	Static	Static
Generic Classes	Yes	N/A	N/A	No	No	Yes
Inheritance	Multiple	Single	Single class, multiple "mixins"	Single class, multiple interfaces	Single class, multiple interfaces	Multiple
Feature Renaming	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No
Method Overloading	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Operator Overloading	Yes	Yes?	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Higher Order Functions	Agents (with version 5)	Blocks	Blocks	No	No	No
Lexical Closures	Yes (inline agents)	Yes (blocks)	Yes (blocks)	No	No	No
Garbage Collection	Mark and Sweep or Generational	Mark and Sweep or Generational	Mark and Sweep	Mark and Sweep or Generational	Mark and Sweep or Generational	None
Uniform Access	Yes	N/A	Yes	No	No	No
Class Variables / Methods	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Reflection	Yes (as of version 5)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Access Control	Selective Export	Protected Data, Public Methods	public, protected, private	public, protected, "package", private	public, protected, private, internal, protected internal	public, protected, private, "friends"
Design by Contract	Yes	No	Add-on	No	No	No
Multithreading	Implementation- Dependent	Implementation- Dependent	Yes	Yes	Yes	Libraries
Regular Expressions	No	No	Built-in	Standard Library	Standard Library	No
Pointer Arithmetic	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Language Integration	C, C++, Java	C	C, C++, Java	C, some C++	All .NET Languages	C, Assembler
Built-In Security	No	No?	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

Till you evaluate the languages,I shall prepare the next articel for this tech session..bbye..