From owner-freebsd-java Mon Feb 22 19:28:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from stcgate.statcan.ca (stcgate.statcan.ca [142.206.192.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 659BA115A9 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:28:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeays@statcan.ca) Received: from stcinet (stcinet.statcan.ca [142.206.128.146]) by stcgate.statcan.ca (8.9.1/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA11201; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:34:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from statcan.ca by statcan.ca (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id WAA08981; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:28:10 -0500; sender jeays@statcan.ca Message-ID: <36D22026.F3192407@statcan.ca> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:27:34 -0500 From: Mike Jeays Organization: Statistics Canada X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Kelly Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: somewhat new to java questions References: <36CDB479.65A0EFC6@chdev.com> <199902200138.SAA22208@mt.sri.com> <36CE170E.3F11D82D@statcan.ca> <36D1E8AA.4661E99D@plutotech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sean Kelly wrote: > > > I get the feeling that the Java Emperor has no clothes. > > Heh heh. > Much snipping... > Object orientation. Java is a *good* object-oriented language, unlike > C++. Plus, it's a lot easier to write large programs in it than in > Tcl/Tk. > > --Sean Quite true. I spent some time looking at [incr TCL] (the name is very clever), which provides a very nice OO implementation that is very similar to C++ and Java. I didn't manage to get it to work on my 2.2.6 system, and will try again later this year when I can get the 3.1 CD-Rom set. I am not sure how widely [incr TCL] is used, however. -- Mike Jeays : System Development Division, Statistics Canada 14-O R.H. Coats Building, Holland Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0T6 Voice (613)-951-9929 FAX 951-0607 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message