Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <> | | Subject | Re: [OT] Threads, inelegance, and Java | | Date | Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:09:46 +0000 (UTC) |
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Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> writes:
>On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 09:00:47AM +0000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: >> Just the fact that some people use Java (or any other language) does >> not mean, that they don't care about "performance, system-design or >> any elegance whatsoever" [2].
>However, the very concept of Java encourages not caring about >"performance, system-design or any elegance whatsoever". If you cared
Care to elaborate? It's an application programming language, not a kernel hacker language, you know.
I won't call Java the perfect solution for everything, but it's an useful tool for a certain type of applications.
>for a reason). Need run-anywhere support? Distribute sources instead. >Once they are compiled they won't need to be reinterpreted on every >run.
Thanks buddy. I've seen too many "#ifdef _SOLARIS_ || _LINUX && !_X86_" definition deserts to not wanting to do this again. Portability without os-specific tweaks for more than two or three platforms is a dream. And most if not all commercial platforms don't come with perl, python, tcl/tk or anything else installed. Many even without a (C-)compiler. Most without a C++-compiler.
Regards Henning
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