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- From: The Nameless One <hopkins@smartlink.net>
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- Subject: Re: Will JAVA kill C++?
- Date: 8 Mar 1996 10:15:41 GMT
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- ABSOLUTELY NOT!
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- Since JAVA is still INTERPRETED (yes, even after it is "compiled" into
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- psuedocode) a "pure" C++ program will beat the socks off of a pure Java
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- program any day of the week in terms of speed and overall power. Any
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- interpreted language is slow no matter how fast your computer is!
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- Even if you did compile the JAVA program into your machine's native
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- language (in so doing you would lose ALL cross-platform compatibility), I
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- still think the C++ program would be quicker and more efficient -- There
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- are still some things you will not be able to do in JAVA, such as
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- pointers. And anyone who believes arrays can do anything a real pointer
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- can does not know what they are talking about and probably does not know
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- how to program very well.
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- Java main advantage, and a large advantage it is, will be complete
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- cross-platform compatibility. Meaning any JAVA program will run on any
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- machine which has an interpreter programmed for it. I think we will see
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- many JAVA apps in the future, but C++ will be here to stay. You will
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- never program a true operating system in JAVA! And if a program needs
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- real speed or does heavy graphics work I think JAVA will come up short.
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