Hello Max!

27 Jan 03 04:36, Max Khon wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:


 GK>> The usual ones: better and easier to port, safer programs, less 
 GK>> coredumps,

 MK> less coredumps for more unhandled exceptions

Depends on your code. The thing about coredumps is often the thoughtless
use of pointers in C/C++. This definitely doesn't happen with Java.

 GK>> easier to work on with a group of people, 
 GK>> easier to extend and reuse existing code. There are more.

 MK> both of these statements are moot.

I don't think so. I have colleagues writing in C++ and colleagues writing
in Java. I can quite easily reuse the Java code for my own purposes, but
it's a lot more difficult with C++. You may say now, that this is my own
problem, because I don't know enough about C++; but at least that's what
I'm experiencing.

 MK> I am not against having message editor written in Java, but
 MK> hpt written in Java will be an overkill.

I don't suggest to write anything in Java. This was just thinking about
what would be nice to have. Of couse a Java editor would be more useful
than a Java tosser, as I already wrote above; you're perfectly right with
that.

A lot of problems with the Husky source could be solved by rewriting it in
/any/ modern language; simply by knowing that you're not programming for
DOS or OS/2 and Watcom C or MSVC, but for a portable project.

 MK> usually you care about amount of memory your programs eat less when 
 MK> you are on desktop than if you are running fido station on server.

Well, I guess that still depends on your server.


Regards,
Gerrit

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