On Saturday 06 May 2006 14:30, kai wrote:
/me raises eyebrow - something wrong with Java? Please tell us more. I've programmed in Java, Visual Basic, Cobol, Pascal, C++, C#, and a bit of assembler. So far, I've found Java to be a tight and comfortable programming language. Like any language it has its annoyances.
You don't have RPG or FORTRAN on your list... most of us guys old enough to
program COBOL have had our share of both of the others also... :-))
The reason you don't hate Java is because you don't have C on your list...
and C programmers need and *must* always and forever use pointers. [its in
our blood] anyway, Java is crummy C++ without pointer support... ;-) and
well, without pointers you might as well be using Basic... which I guess you
did for a while... me too... but that was way way way back on the Vic20
Motorola 6502...
Java functions... its slow, but it works. C++ is better, C is even better, and
with a TCL/TK wrapper is the best!
Java is like coffee... before I drink it I always want to add something like
cream and/or sugar... then I remember that the stuff is just bad for me...