> From: The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > From: Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > Java is the spawn of satan, the ultimate evil. > > > > > > Cambridge University's Computer Laboratory now teach Java as their > > > introductory language. What do you think of that? (When I did my > > > postgrad diploma there they taught us Modula-3 first, then ML, then > C, > > > Java and Prolog.) > > > > Java is also the most widely used programming language in the world. > What > > the heck is so evil about it? > > I don't think so. Not by a wide margin. > > Java makes sense for enterprise projects that > need > > to be deployed widely. > > Aside from Java's extremely bad design, no two Java virtually machines > actually run Java programs the same way, which means write once, test > everwhere (for every single code change). And then there are the > different incompatible version, which create a worse kind of 'dll hell' > scenerio from different programs which require different versions to work > properly.
Additionally, Java is extremely slow. Like Molasses. In winter. At the south pole. FREX: I ported a mandelbrot set program to Java from C++ (there is also a VB version). At a lower resolution, with an order of magnitude _fewer_ iterations per pixel, the Java program was still much much slower, than the VB version which is somewhat slower than the c++ version. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
