On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 21:26 +0100, Heikki Levanto wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 09:48:35AM -0500, Don Dailey wrote: > > > My personal preference might be C, but at > > > work I have to learn more Java... Anyway, I don't want to start a > > > language war here, not again... > > > > Oh, you want a war :-) > > > > Seriously, Java has it's place but if you really get serious about > > developing the highest performance strong playing bot I think you pretty > > much are forced into a low level language. I see only a very few > > reasonable choices if you want to go that way: > > yes, but my reason for considering Java has nothing to do with how good a > language it is, nor how well it suits the task at hand. The main argument is > that in my day work I need to code java, and any practice I can get with it > is useful - and may even be an excuse to do some of the stuff at work time. > > If I didn't have enough C-coding to do at work now, I would write C on my > spare time, but as things are now, I get that need satisfied all right.
Of course. I'm doing some stuff in Java for the reason that it's a practical skill to have and also that it is cross-platform. It's all about what you want to accomplish, how much time you have to do it, and how much fun you want to have doing it as well as other practical considerations. - Don > > -H >
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