Robert wrote:
>Also (yeah, I know I'm getting a little off topic<g>) I am curious if you
>have formed an opinion regarding Java, as a portable language.
I haven't listed my credentcials so I'll just add it here then (although I
find it a bit unnecisary):
Been a DOS user regulary since 85
Started programming (QBasic and Basic) in 92 or so
C since 94
Pascal since 95 (kind of backwards, I know)
C++ since 96
And other languages at the side from time to time include: Assembler
(Motorola and Intel), Java, Perl, VisualBasic (currently used at work),
Prolog and Lisp.
Java is not even close to being portable. I and three classmates (I was up
until recently a student at the local university) made a game very close to
Civilization I/II (but more complex rules) in Java as an assignment
(granted, we went overboard with it - the original game would have taken us
a week or two instead of ten to create). And one of the things we learned
is that Java is not even close to being called a portable language. We were
at the end sorry that we hadn't written it in C++ so we could actually run
it on more than one very narrow hardware/software platform. We didn't
choose to make things that bad (we programmed 100% correct Java), but in
our experience the only thing that was able to run Java as it should was
the appletviewer in Linux.
And of course, we didn't find a big bug that made the presentation alot
less good when the other people that took the course was going to see it.
//Bernie
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