Re: [SC-L] Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

2006-11-14 Thread Robin Sheat
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 13:28, Crispin Cowan wrote: It means that compromising performance It's not necessarily a given that runtime performance is compromised. There are situations where Java is faster than C (I've tested this on trivial things). I'm sure there are situations where the

Re: [SC-L] Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

2006-11-14 Thread Crispin Cowan
Robin Sheat wrote: On Tuesday 14 November 2006 13:28, Crispin Cowan wrote: It means that compromising performance It's not necessarily a given that runtime performance is compromised. There are situations where Java is faster than C (I've tested this on trivial things). Here it

Re: [SC-L] Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

2006-11-13 Thread Glenn and Mary Everhart
Crispin Cowan wrote: Al Eridani wrote: On 11/9/06, Crispin Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Prior to Java, resorting to compiling to byte code (e.g. P-code back in the Pascal days) was considered a lame kludge because the language developers couldn't be bothered to write a real compiler.

Re: [SC-L] Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

2006-11-13 Thread mikeiscool
On 11/13/06, Glenn and Mary Everhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Crispin Cowan wrote: Al Eridani wrote: On 11/9/06, Crispin Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Prior to Java, resorting to compiling to byte code (e.g. P-code back in the Pascal days) was considered a lame kludge because the

Re: [SC-L] Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

2006-11-13 Thread ljknews
At 10:31 PM +1100 11/13/06, mikeiscool wrote: On 11/13/06, Glenn and Mary Everhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there is some construct that NEEDS to be interpreted to gain something, it can be justified on that basis. Using interpretive runtimes just to link languages, or just to achieve

Re: [SC-L] Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

2006-11-13 Thread mikeiscool
On 11/14/06, ljknews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:31 PM +1100 11/13/06, mikeiscool wrote: On 11/13/06, Glenn and Mary Everhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there is some construct that NEEDS to be interpreted to gain something, it can be justified on that basis. Using interpretive

Re: [SC-L] Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

2006-11-13 Thread mikeiscool
On 11/14/06, Leichter, Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | If there is some construct that NEEDS to be interpreted to gain | something, it can be justified on that basis. Using interpretive | runtimes just to link languages, or just to achieve portability | when source code portability

Re: [SC-L] Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

2006-11-13 Thread Crispin Cowan
mikeiscool wrote: On 11/14/06, Leichter, Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The joke we used to make was: The promise of Java was Write once, run everywhere. What we found was Write once, debug everywhere. Then came the Swing patches, which would cause old bugs to re-appear, or suddenly

Re: [SC-L] Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

2006-11-12 Thread Crispin Cowan
Al Eridani wrote: On 11/9/06, Crispin Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Prior to Java, resorting to compiling to byte code (e.g. P-code back in the Pascal days) was considered a lame kludge because the language developers couldn't be bothered to write a real compiler. Post-Java,

Re: [SC-L] Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

2006-11-12 Thread mikeiscool
And then there's write once, run anywhere. Yeah ... right. I've run Java applets, and Javascript applets, and the latter are vastly superior for performance, and worse, all too often the Java applets are not run anywhere, they only run on very specific JVM implementations. You really can't

Re: [SC-L] Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

2006-11-11 Thread Al Eridani
On 11/9/06, Crispin Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Prior to Java, resorting to compiling to byte code (e.g. P-code back in the Pascal days) was considered a lame kludge because the language developers couldn't be bothered to write a real compiler. Post-Java, resorting to compiling to machine

Re: [SC-L] Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

2006-11-10 Thread mikeiscool
On 11/9/06, SZALAY Attila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 10:20 +1100, mikeiscool wrote: You can definately get appropriate information via the stack trace with java's exception handling. It's strange to see you say debugging is _eaiser_ in c, typically people

Re: [SC-L] Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

2006-11-09 Thread SZALAY Attila
Hi Al, On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 08:47 -0500, ljknews wrote: I think you are mixing the issue of Java vs. C* with the issue of interpreters vs compiled languages. Yes, you are totally right. Sorry. But I have not seen java or c# compiler. ___ Secure

Re: [SC-L] Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

2006-11-09 Thread Crispin Cowan
ljknews wrote: At 4:18 PM +0100 11/9/06, SZALAY Attila wrote: Hi Al, On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 08:47 -0500, ljknews wrote: I think you are mixing the issue of Java vs. C* with the issue of interpreters vs compiled languages. I agree with LJ: language issues aside, I detest

Re: [SC-L] Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

2006-11-08 Thread SZALAY Attila
Hi All! On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 23:23 +1100, mikeiscool wrote: Hold the phone ... What debugging problems? What _specific_ speed issues? I'd be really surprised if your project couldn't be resolved with java; what specific problems are you facing? What tests have you run/consider to show that

Re: [SC-L] Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

2006-11-08 Thread mikeiscool
On 11/8/06, SZALAY Attila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All! On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 23:23 +1100, mikeiscool wrote: Hold the phone ... What debugging problems? What _specific_ speed issues? I'd be really surprised if your project couldn't be resolved with java; what specific problems are

Re: [SC-L] Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

2006-11-06 Thread psteichen
for cross-platform C# there is the mono project which do a great jpb of porting the .NET framework to the Linux world, check it out at : http://www.mono-project.com/further perl or python (which are more or less cross-platform) might also be used for your rewrite project, all depends one your

Re: [SC-L] Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

2006-11-06 Thread mikeiscool
On 11/6/06, SZALAY Attila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All! I read this thread and I little be afraid. I'm just ahead of a complete rewriting of my program. The previous code was written in pure C (with an OOP looks-like somewhere). This program should run on Linux, freebsd and windows

Re: [SC-L] Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

2006-11-06 Thread der Mouse
I read this thread and I little be afraid. I'm just ahead of a complete rewriting of my program. The previous code was written in pure C (with an OOP looks-like somewhere). Perhaps I'm missing something. Why do you have to abandon C? You mention C++, C#, and Java, but no other languages;

Re: [SC-L] Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

2006-11-06 Thread ljknews
At 10:47 AM -0500 11/6/06, der Mouse wrote: I read this thread and I little be afraid. I'm just ahead of a complete rewriting of my program. The previous code was written in pure C (with an OOP looks-like somewhere). Perhaps I'm missing something. Why do you have to abandon C? You