Hi, > beyond me - everything is a bloody class.
Isn't that why OOP was invented. So that real world objects such as buttons, text boxes, forms etc can be easily represented as an entity. If you don't like objects them use GTK and have a look how the the "official" hello world app is. Java may be slow but I love programming in it. I am currentally coding an analysis program in C++ then creating a GUI frontend to get the data and Chart it. If you are looking for an java IDE I use Net Beans http://netbeans.org. Cheers Paul On Monday 31 March 2003 09:23 pm, Gareth Williams wrote: > My 2c > Pro - cross platform > Con - dog slow > > However it is a nice language IMO, and probably one I know best (oh dear, > isn't that sad :-/ I must force myself to use C more often..). Garbage > collection is especially nice though ;-) > > So I use it. But I can't defend Swing. How you can call it "really nice" is You need to instantiate a whole > bunch of different objects just to do something relatively simple. I can > see that some structure like this is good design, but they take it to a > ridiculous extent. It's a total PITA to use. > > Cheers, > Gareth > > > 2c > > I like java a lot, mainly bacause it's realitively easy to pick up > > (unlike C *evils in it's direction*) and it provides a really nice way > > to design guis via JavaSwing. > > --Slosh > > > > Tom Munro Glass wrote: > > > Thanks for the info guys, I've installed KDevelop overnight so will > > > check that out later along with some of the other suggestions. I would > > > find switching to Kylix quite easy, but I wonder about its future. > > > > > > What's the consensus, or is there a consensus, about Java? I used to > > > think it was too slow, and I heard a number of less than favourable > > > comments about it when I mentioned it at InstallFest. And what about > > > C#, .NET and things like the Mono project, any comments? > > > > > > Finally for now, how about UML / CASE tools with code generation and > > > reverse engineering capabilities? Any recommended packages? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Tom Munro Glass
