Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Jun 2001 08:12:29 -0700 | From | Ben Greear <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Threads, inelegance, and Java |
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Aaron Lehmann wrote: > > 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
System-design and elegance are easy to get in Java, and in fact are independent of language. Good c code will beat Java in most cases, performance wise, but lately the difference has become small enough not to matter for most applications. Speed is not the most important feature in a great many programs, otherwise we'd all be using assembly still.
> about any of those things you would compile to native code (it exists > for a reason). Need run-anywhere support? Distribute sources instead.
When was the last time you wrote a large cross-platform GUI that just worked on other platforms, without any additional tweaking, after you developed it on your Linux machine?
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