On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Ben Barrett wrote:
So, what is the problem we are really looking at?
There are so many negative sentiments regarding Java,
but I think it has its benefits, and is worth knowing
what it is good for... right tool / right job, after all.
The original problem, as stated to me a
I think the internet is dreaming ;-)
On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 05:02 PM, Darren Hayes wrote:
http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-1019759.html
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This is a
This quote from this page:
http://www.byte.com/documents/s=8276/byt1055784622054/0616_marshall.html
At this point I started to think about the public interest and about
restrictive monopolies laws. It was almost as though Sontag was reading
my mindand yes, SCO has that base covered too.
I
One note(downside) about wxPython: cuz it's based on C libraries it's
missing the nice, polymorphic function argument style of python ((in
contrast to TKinter :-) )):
func(defautlt1=val1, dflt2=val2,, **argDict{} )
where all you custom arguments are handled in one data structure
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Neil Parker wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Ben Barrett wrote:
So, what is the problem we are really looking at?
There are so many negative sentiments regarding Java,
but I think it has its benefits, and is worth knowing
what it is good for... right tool / right job, after
... I forgot to mention another feature of a high-level language that
helps with rapid development:
the garbage collector.
(which I first learned to appreciate in Java :-)
I still remember having to write full featured C++ classes with default
constructor, copy constructor (plus
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Horst wrote:
[*] See http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/B/bondage-and-discipline-language.html
Neil, are you sure this link addresses the above issue ? .. Horst
No...merely apropos of complaining about protect-you-from-yourself language
features. Java has some annoying
