Re: [Jython-dev] java

[dman <ds...@ri...>]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 11:06:51PM -0500, sha...@ao... wrote:
| I was wondering if you could help me answer some of the following questions 
| about java:

Here are my strongly opinionated opinions :

| 1. efficiency (translation and execution) 

most java apps are bloated and slow
(compare j3d with vpython for just one example)

| 2. simplicity (readability and writeablity) 
| 3. orthogonality 
| 7. abstraction facilities (data and procedural) 

python is many many times better

| 4. definiteness (syntax and semantics) 

I don't know what you mean here.

| 5. reliability 
| 6. program verification (correctness) 

These are depedent on the programmer.  I can make both good and bad
programs in any language.

| 8. portability 

see #2, unless you want to run in a web browser  (can you find java on
an amiga or other non-mainstream systems?)


-D

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