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- From: linden@positive.eng.sun.com (Peter van der Linden)
- Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Java: What's the Big Deal?
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 04:13:05 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation
- Message-ID: <4iaqoh$582@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>
- References: <4i40ik$9dt@news4.digex.net> <milodDo5yDE.H8B@netcom.com> <1996Mar14.124235.9729@friend.kastle.com> <4iane3$dr4@news4.digex.net>
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- Cc:
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- In article <4iane3$dr4@news4.digex.net>, Ell <ell@access1.digex.net> wrote:
- >Still, without pointers, it [Java] cannot cover all
- >of the ground occupied by C++.
- >
- >Elliott
-
- It's really odd the way word seems to have spread that Java
- doesn't have pointers. It's become the accepted wisdom, yet
- it's quite wrong.
-
- Java has pointers (it calls them "references") and you can build
- dynamic data structures in Java just as well as you can in C or C++.
-
- What Java omits is the ability to do arithmetic on pointers or
- to do explicit memory deallocation (notorious sources of errors in
- both C and C++ -- remember how the example program that came with
- Purify was straight out of the standard X11 release?)
-
- --
- Peter van der Linden linden@eng.sun.com
- Java: as far away from C++ as possible, but no further.
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-