-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Mauro Tortonesi wrote: > >> not really. because of its JIT compiler, Java is often as fast as C/C++, and >> sometimes even significantly faster. > > And GCJ can be asked to compile Java to native machine code too. I think > Java per se would be OK as a programming language if it were not for its > ridiculously huge standard library. But rewriting Wget just as a proof of > concept does not seem a particularly exciting way of spending time. > Anyone is free to do so though I presume. ;-)
Ah, well, the rewrite is pretty much inevitable. "Wget 2" is too different in scope and functionality for it to be otherwise. And rapid prototyping _is_ desirable. I think "prototyping" is the wrong word, though, and "incrementally rewriting in C" is probably unrealistic. A prototype is something that proves a concept, but is written specifically to be thrown away: it doesn't do its job fully and/or robustly. I'm not interested in writing that. Similarly, once a working version is written, in any language, I personally would not plan to reimplement it in another (which is perhaps what you meant when you were talking about rewriting?). As you say, though, others are free to do so :) - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHUFGw7M8hyUobTrERAhhwAKCNnAvvuyqhDeYYawmdNhTFEI3hLgCfRPdF wxAoUqCjd0i0TN/P+Ok7WUw= =zCU0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
