[rescue] slow java code...an example of why it might be happening

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:10:43PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:56:47PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> >   There's a such thing as a programming language whose conceptual level 
> > is TOO HIGH.  This is a big problem with inexperienced programmers.  
> > Most of the horribly slow and bloated C++ code that I've looked through 
> > suffers from problems very much like the one I described above, and I 
> > suspect all the commercial farmed-out-to-India bloatware that you guys 
> > are bitching about is like this as well.
> 
> Thank god I got through college before "Object Oriented" became the
> OMG WTF MUZT HAVE NOW suit buzzword.  When I went through, they were
> teaching COBOL, Pascal, and C.

When did you go to college?  I've been hearing about OO since 1990.  And
the only reason it wasn't a lot sooner was because I'm didn't have
access to outside information sources that weren't aimed at C64 type
people from the very early 80s.