> > how good is C++ support on gcc? is it completely ANSI/ISO compliant? does it
>
> Yes, it is completely ANSI/ISO compliant. In fact, last I heard, The
> GNU C++ compiler was the ONLY compiler in existence that fully
>
I agree with that. In fact you can learn more what gcc/g++ can do
by looking at its man pages.
> Honestly, while Java is far from being perfect, it's the best we got
> at the moment, and with GCJ now part of the GNU compiler collection,
> accusations that it's slow, interpreted language should go away.
>
I dont 100% agree with that. IMHO, the issue of using C/C++ vs Java
(or some other language) really depends on your intended application. For
example, if you are doing realtime applications, C/C++ still has the
fastest execution time and thus the most suitable (strictly speaking C
and then C++). If you are doing cross platform apps without realtime
constraints then Java is probably the most suitable. There was a
definitive study done on this issue (C/C++ vs Java vs Perl vs Tcl/Tk vs
Python) in one of the recent issues of IEEE Computer magazine
(www.computer.org).
-rowel
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