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

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Tue Feb 11 13:10:43 CST 2003


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.

(and Lotus 1-2-3, DBase, Wordperfect...)

bill

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bill bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
austin, texas


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