Re: FW: OT: Why is C so popular?
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:08:13AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > And what I've seen of the larger stuff in Java, it's horrably slow and
> > unreliable. So if it's too elephantine for little stuff and two slow
> > and warped for the big stuff, just what the heck is Java good for again?
>
> You can make bad designs and write bad code in any language.
Right, but a good language makes it somewhat counterintuitive or
difficult to code without at least a passable design. I've seen a lot
of plain crap out of java developers that makes Microsoft's reliabilty
record shine. Granted, they can't test on every environment, but
that's one reason why I think java is fundamentally flawed.
Meanwhile, I've seen Linux kernels stay up over a year and it's
written mostly in C.
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.''`. Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
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