From: "Paul Ranson" 

But C++ can do all that. Managed/unmanaged. GC/non-GC, or both in the same app.

What is the advantage of Java as a language given there's no obvious
advantage to it as an environment? I suppose a more flexible 'goto'
mechanism...

Paul

"Adam"  wrote in message
news:428db7a2$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Rubbish.
>
> For speed I can show you a load of independant studies where
> inline/dynaminc compiling etc means that the load time might be longer but
> the execution time might actually be shorter.
>
> For predictability...nope. You can control the gc as you wish & there are
> a number of other ways you can make very predictable java systems.
>
> Adam

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