[rescue] Sun memo regarding Java

[Dave McGuire]

On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 11:41 PM, vance at neurotica.com wrote:
>>> Most Java programs don't know how to get development speed from it.
>>> Frankly, I'm not sure I do, even though I know it's in there 
>>> somewhere.
>>
>>    Eh??  You just...*write* it.  You want a button?  A line of code.
>> You want a file chooser widget?  A dozen lines of code.  You want an
>> error dialog box with a stop-sign icon?  Three lines of code.
>
> But if you're doing all of this with Swing, it won't exactly be fast.  
> Add
> a few extra lines of code to do it in awt, and you get a little extra
> speed.  If you do it in Java2D, it will be much, much faster, but it 
> will
> take a lot more code.

   We were talking about development speed, not execution speed.

      -Dave

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