[geeks] Misuse of Java

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 06:16:35AM -0600, Jonathan C Patschke wrote:

> I'm bothered by the fact that this trend doesn't seem to be stopping at 
> installation gizmos.  More and more Solaris-specific administration 
> utilities are being written in Java by Sun.  I know it's typically a 
> lot easier to hammer out an app in Java than in C, but are Sun's 
> programmers really -that- strapped for time, or have they forgotten 
> that not everyone has a Blade 2000 or an Ultra 80 on their desk?  Or 
> are the Java programmers on the Solaris team simply not up-to-speed on 
> how to make a Java/Swing application more optimized?

I suspect that it is bad programming on the part of the java
programmers, since I've seen fast, responsive java programs on machines
much slower than a U1.  I used to spend hours and hours worked on stuff
in java on a SS5 170 (one of those wierd IPXs that Mike N. picked up, in
fact) with a basic 8 bit card, and it was usually perfectly fine except
when I did something wrong.

Now, this was pre swing, so maybe that makes a difference.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd