[2349] in java-interest
Re: main() routine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Brown)
Fri Sep 29 17:22:48 1995
To: cmcmanis@scndprsn.eng.sun.com (Chuck McManis)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 11:58:00 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
In-Reply-To: <9509291849.AA02221@pepper.Eng.Sun.COM> from "Chuck McManis" at Sep 29, 95 11:49:16 am
From: phil@bolthole.com (Philip Brown)
[ Chuck McManis writes ]
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> Argv[0] what the name of your program by convienence in C.
Except on systems where you couldn't get the name of your program. In which
case, it was suitably dummied.
I don't care about actually USING that feature, Although I think if it was
set to the primary classname that has the main(), it would be nice.
I just am a bit miffed that, when porting C/C++ code over to java, it is yet
another thing for me to remember, or more likely, forget, and then have to
debug.
Arthur mentioned "we never claimed to be compatible with C/++"
Oh, sure, you never made that explicit claim. But that's like sun marketing
calling SunOS, "solaris 1". Gak.
Just as most normal people view "solaris", as meaning "solaris 2.x",
most normal people will view java as a derivative of C++.
So it is odd that you threw this simple bit of compatibility out.
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