James said:
> I would argue that it is the packages that made java not the language. Su=
> n built the packages.
I would concur with this assesment, though the inherently more robust and
reliable code (no pointers) that Java produces, along with it's improved
security model did help adoption as well.
> Java however has the advantage that its library can go further.. ie it is
> inherintly more re-useable than C. The issue is that the C libraries are
> 80/20 libraries so are hard to slay.
So how do you propose we slay the C library dragon?
There is nothing that says we can't wrap C libraries in a Java/JAPL wrapper to
leverage existing device driver libraries, for those platforms that will support
this.
Andrzej Jan Taramina
Chaeron Corporation: Enterprise System Solutions
http://www.chaeron.com
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