home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!waikato!not-for-mail
- From: sbh@cs.waikato.ac.nz (Stephen B Hodge)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Visual E - New E Developer Tool - vedev.gif (0/1)
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 04:01:13 GMT
- Organization: The University of Waikato
- Sender: sbh@waikato.ac.nz
- Message-ID: <4jd2u9$1vac@thebes.waikato.ac.nz>
- References: <68772090@0humpty.tomate.tng.oche.de> <Dou4u8.2H1@cix.compulink.co.uk> <4j7kil$pd3@pravda.aa.msen.com>
- Reply-To: sbh@waikato.ac.nz
- NNTP-Posting-Host: borg.cs.waikato.ac.nz
- X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950726BETA PL0]
-
- Chad Randall (crandall@mail.msen.com) wrote:
- : : I could give you a very long list of reasons why I don't like E. It's got
- : : some very fundamental design flaws as a language, and although it's quite
- : : easy for a beginner to get into I really can't recommend it to anyone for
- : : any serious use.
- :
- : Design flaws? The only thing I can think of is a lack of strong
- : datatyping. Other than that, it has a better design in places than C does.
- : And E is close to Java in design. Exception handling, no messing with
- : pointers, automatic memory deallocation, etc. If Java is the next big thing,
- : than E can't be too bad.
-
- Java is based on C++. All of the things you have mentioned are in C++. If a
- Visual type system really wants to be taken seriously it has to support C++
- or a least C.
-
- --
-
- Steve Hodge
- sbh@cs.waikato.ac.nz
- Computer Science Dept, University of Waikato,
- Hamilton, New Zealand
-
-