So, my official opinion on Java

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After two weeks in my Comp Sci class that for whatever reason uses Java, I've come to a conclusion.

Java feels fairly easy to pick up, but is retarded as a programming language. For example, it's insanely long strings to to simple things are easy to memorize, but retarded to type.

A hellrld program in C++:

#include <iostream>
int main() {
std::cout << "Hello, world!";
return 0;
}

Compared to:

class HelloWorld
{
     public static void main ( String[] args )
     {
          System.out.println("Hello, world!" );
          return 0;
      }
}

Why does the Java one have to be so ridiculously long?

Or take user input for example.

C++:

#include <iostream>
int main() {
cout << "Enter your name: ";
cin >> name;
cout << "Your name is " << name << ".";
return 0;
}

Java:

import java.io.*;

public class GetUserInput {
    public static void main ( String[] args ) {
       System.out.print("Enter your name: " );
       BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
       String name = null;
       try {
         name = br.readLine();
       } catch (IOException e) {
         System.out.println("Error!" );
         System.exit(1);
       }
       System.out.println("Your name is " + name );
}
}

Of course, the Java one includes an error check too, but seriously - why is it so ridiculously long?

Also, for games and large programs and stuff, Java is slower because of how high-level it is and the fact that it's run in a virtual machine.

Overall, I prefer C++ because of it's extreme variety of things you can program with it (For example, Xbox games) compared to Java, where the only good game ever programmed in it takes a gaming computer to run, when it has 10-bit graphics. (Read: Minecraft)