[6555] in java-interest
Take Sun's Java hype with a grain of salt.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonas Barklund)
Thu Apr 4 01:01:59 1996
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 07:58:26 +0200
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From: Jonas Barklund <jonas@CSD.UU.SE>
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John,
> Weirdest thing I've noticed so far about Java is Sun's claim that there
> are no pointers in Java. It seems more like everything is a pointer in
> Java. If you declare an object variable and fail to use the 'new'
> operator you get a null pointer exception. Sounds like pointer to me. Why
> does 'new' exist in a laguage without pointers in the first place?
Of course there are pointers underneath in Java; what they say is that
you don't manipulate them as explicitly and as wildly as in C. Like
adding an arbitrary integer to a pointer and get a pointer to who
knows what. Read the claims more carefully.
-- Jonas
PS. It's now several days since I emailed java-interest-request and
asked to unsubscribe and the mail keeps coming in...
