[E-Lang] empirical and statistical comparison of languages

[zooko@zooko.com]

> >My current hypothesis is that if library ships with the interpreter, then it
> >gets used, and if you have to download it separately it doesn't.  My experience
> >with Python (and its beautiful `module index'[1]) suggests that all kinds of
> >occasionally-useful things ought to be shipped with the interpreter.
> 
> The entire huge standard Java API, including all the collection classes, 
> ship bundled with Java.


You're right.

(Zooko does a bit of research...)

The Java code was written in 1997/1998 -- the Collection API wasn't added til
the end of 1998.


I feel sure that modern Java programmers would use the standard collection
classes.


Regards,

Zooko