SteveYegge on RubyLanguage vs JavaLanguage's big failing :

• http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/bloggers-block-4-ruby-and-java-and.html

This is so true.

It's a big part of why ClojureLanguage is orders of magnitude better. See RichHickey on DeathBySpecificity

It's data-first.

I can't believe in that in 2021, in an Android app, I still can't use multi-line strings in Java!!!!!!!!!