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Date:      Wed, 6 Mar 2002 09:13:22 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: C vs C++
Message-ID:  <15494.16418.45131.322945@caddis.yogotech.com>
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> I can write reliable code in C, but I also know that it takes so much
> time, effort, and triple-checking that it saps my productivity. That's
> why I strongly favor safer languages. (Those who were at BSDCon this
> year may have seen the worm blocker/IDS I wrote for FreeBSD in 28 lines
> of SNOBOL4....)

So, why don't you like Java if you like safer languages?  Have you
*tried* do something in Java, or are you assuming that's it's a bad
language because of it's C-like syntax?




Nate

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