Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 14:39:31 -0600 From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sweet dreams are made of this... Message-ID: <3443D882.969D2890@fsl.noaa.gov> References: <Pine.A41.3.95.971014094547.16712B-100000.kithrup.freebsd.chat@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> <199710141817.LAA22953@kithrup.com> <199710141922.NAA08321@rocky.mt.sri.com> <19971014151420.16818@right.PCS>
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I'm usually wary of overly hyped things and Java was no exception. But after doing OO programming in C++ for several years, programming in Java is a walk in the clouds. The language by itself has a number of improvements over C++. There are no templates nor any nasty template instantiation. Exceptions are reasonable and (better yet) work. And although I myself used to argue against garbage collection, I find it one of the most liberating features of a environment, along with no pointers to be seen anywhere. For the first time, I feel as if my focus on programming is much more on the application domain instead of on the language and system. It feels good. :-) Oh, and my management also likes the fact that the skill set of their Unix weenies is finally being leveraged against more popular platforms. I compile and test on FreeBSD (what else?) and ship it to Windows, Solaris, HP/UX, and it runs. (For the most part. :-) --Sean
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