From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 6 10: 9:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6420C37B400 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 10:09:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0158.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.158] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16ifqs-0004mc-00; Wed, 06 Mar 2002 10:09:22 -0800 Message-ID: <3C865B42.ED79FF0@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 10:09:06 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Williams Cc: Brett Glass , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Java vs. SNOBOL4 References: <3C857080.44C5236B@mindspring.com> <20020305193028.H6706-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020306075350.00ddfb00@localhost> <15494.16418.45131.322945@caddis.yogotech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nate Williams wrote: > > 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? He likes *safer* languages, not *different* languages. Though you couldn't tell from his choice of SNOBOL4... 8^p 8-) 8-) }B^). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message