Subject: Re: [stella] Poll: Developer Wishlist From: Tennessee Carmel-Veilleux <veilleux@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 07:37:42 -0500 (EST) |
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Schwerin wrote: > Not hearing much love for java out there :( The main reason I bring it up > is that would be the easiest for me to develop in at the time being. I'm > using the mac and PC platforms so for me it's just obvious to write my > "in-house" needs in java. > My "in-house" apps are all 100% ANSI C, and I've never had any problems porting them on different platforms. There's a myth about java portability. Java is portable only if the standard is followed 100% on every platform, which is really not the case. > As for speed, how much speed do you need? A full IDE needs to be well > built, I agree. But smaller tools need less perfection. How fast do you > need your 6K program to assemble? Are you willing to suffer some lag in a > pixel editor if it saves you time writing asm data tables? > VERY fast. I think that speed is really important. Because programmers nowadays don't care about speed, a stupid featureless text editing program which is crappier than even my anus can tell, now runs on Win98 with a P166 minimum, with 32megs of RAM, whilst my good friend Word Perfect 5.1 could run on even the crappiest XT if you gave it a High density floppy drive and 640k of RAM. This IS the problem plaguing today's computer world: people don't fu**ing care about speed (sorry for being vulgar here). It's driving the industry down. Real coders should know assembly. Making a tool as fast as possible only makes me happier, even though nobody's gonna notice if I made a slow one, I'm still sure that *MY* programs will work on ye 'ol 16mhz 386. > Rest assured, on my 25 Mhz mac VM, I can tell when java is more like molasses. > (It's garbage collection drives me crazy sometimes). > On my P233, the Netscape VM is far worst than a 6507 at 3.58/3mhz ;) Regards, -- Tennessee Carmel-Veilleux (Coordonator of Digital Meltdown) veilleux@xxxxxxxxx (www.ameth.org/~veilleux) ICQ ID : 8604827 Support Linux ! (www.linux.org;www.gnu.org) 1.99$ CD->(www.cheapbytes.com) ||*|| This message was written in Canada / Ce message a ete ecrit au Canada -- Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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