Re: API to formatters and grove engines -Reply

[Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Pawson wrote:
> Snipping the above, I know that Java is no better than
> C in terms of learning curve, but ...

Actually Java *is* easier to learn than C. There are no pointers (or at
least they are well hidden). Errors are easy to catch. In Java you get:

java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException:
        at Bar.main(foo.java:10)

rather than

"Core Dump"

(or worse, a random crash later when you access the memory you just
overwrote)

 Paul Prescod

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