John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> I have explained the areas in which I feel Java has an advantage
> over other languages -- for example, development of large-scale
> client GUIs.
Yeah and you're wrong. Java sucks big time as a GUI frontend. (Just
check out a fairly large system like NetBeans). It doesn't help either
that the pencil neck Swing developers are changing the api with each
new release. And the new Java 1.2 release makes me really sick by its
bugge javax.swing packages.
> I have also explained the areas in which I feel Java has some
> catching up to do, for example, tasks involving parsing.
If you're comparing java's abillity for parsing strings with perl's
regexp you're missing the point. If your talking about creating a
parsergenerator in java then you are also missing the point. There
exists for instance two very good ll(k) parser-generators, AntLr and
JavaCC, which are much better grammar-vise than yacc or bison which
are lr(1).
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Jan-Henrik Haukeland
