[geeks] Misuse of Java

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 07:57:50PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:50:26PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> >   Also, the embedded systems community is moving to Java in droves for 
> > larger applications due to lack of bugs caused by misuse of dynamic 
> > allocation and pointers.
> 
> There are plenty of other languages which don't suffer from those,
> including perl, python and ruby.

Java can be compiled to native code fairly efficiency.  I noticed that
python can be compiled as of pretty recently, but I don't know how
efficient it is, or mature.  I can't say a single thing about ruby.  

Perl however sucks.  Except Dave wouldn't be so polite about putting it
that way.

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Joshua D. Boyd