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- From: Rich Shepard <Rich@vitesse.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Will JAVA kill C++?
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 96 19:31:00 GMT
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- Hi There,
-
- sorry I'm new to the group, and I've joined it half way through, but don't you
- think all this about the language needing to be writen to optimise the CPU for
- the best software. If this is so why does no-one write in assembler for the
- complete optimum?
-
- OK that's taking the point too far, but don't you think that the way CPUs
- memory and disks are going, no-one will care if it's optimum, no-one will care
- if their CPU is having every ounce of power squeezeed out of it, all they will
- care about is:
-
- a) The speed it takes to write the code.
- b) The specialist knowledge needed to write the code
- c) Does it do the job
-
- With java it's not machine dependant so you would assume that no specialist
- knowledge would be required (OK a bit simplistic).
-
- C and C++ were supposed to be platform independant and were, but then came
- along the Windows interfaces that screwed all that up again. Now we have JAVA?
-
- Maybe the last generation of software won't look like C at all. Maybe mor like
- Basic. Hey it may waste huge amounts of CPU, but on a Cray it runs fast enough
- and it only took 2 days to write, and you might not need a software engineer
- in to write it.
-
- Well that's my two peneth:)
-
- Take Care:)
-
- Rich
- --
- Rich Shepard
-