[1128] in java-interest
What's the point? (was Re: overloading of operators)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James C Deikun)
Sun Aug 20 04:36:46 1995
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 22:21:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: James C Deikun <jcdst10+@pitt.edu>
To: JD Brennan <brennan@symbologic.com>
cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <9508182148.AA02386@pris.symbologic.com>
On Fri, 18 Aug 1995, JD Brennan wrote:
> Philip R. Brenan writes:
> > What is the point of Java?
>
> To solve some problems in modern programming practice.
> Programming languages are:
>
> * too complex
True.
> * not distributed
And Java is?
> * not interpreted
In itself, I fail to see how this is a 'problem'.
> * not architecture independent
True.
> * not portable (without recompiling)
And they are *with* recompiling? I'd hate to see *real* unportability
then. The only programs I've ever seen that ported well ended up
basically defining languages of their own with the preprocessor.
> * not multi-threaded
m3? python? (I admit this isn't very good threading, but even Java's
doesn't impress me that much.)
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