On Wednesday, 15 October 2014 at 07:31:45 UTC, eles wrote:
On Tuesday, 14 October 2014 at 19:49:08 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Am 14.10.2014 um 17:30 schrieb eles:
On Tuesday, 14 October 2014 at 14:56:53 UTC, eles wrote:
On Tuesday, 14 October 2014 at 13:52:24 UTC, eles wrote:
consistency between 3rd party libraries. Java has spoiled me
While I agree with all this, I think the reason for Java's
developing smoothness is not portability as such, but the
unitarity of it.
This is exactly how Bjarne puts it: "Java is not portable over
platforms, Java is *a platform*."
Which is quite true, might it be not interesting for some
applications. In a way is just like one would brag about
Windows apps portability on the grounds that all operating
systems support Virtualbox...
This is common to any language that offers a rich runtime that
abstracts away over OS specific issues, while allowing you to
jump into the OS when required to do so.
C and C++ fail at this, because C's notion of runtime is called
UNIX and C++ followed along, to cater to the same crowd.
That standard runtime never managed into the language standard
and instead became a standard of its own, POSIX.
With the caveat that not every OS out there implements POSIX
(there are others besides Windows that don't), and those that do,
don't have 100% the same version.
This is exactly the reason why C++ standardization group is now
trying to get the same form of plaftorm abstractions into the
standard, that other languages enjoy.
--
Paulo
