Re: [Wavepacket-ng-devel] Programming language

[Ulf L. <ul...@wa...>]

On Mon, 3 Dec 2012 22:49:30 +0100
Piotr Bienkiewicz <dms...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi,

@Piotr: I assume this mail was intended for the mailing list;
if so, you probably have to configure your mail client to use the
reply-to header.

> "It has much better integration in IDE's and with testing toolkits
>   (JUnit, JMock etc.)"
> 
> Apparently there is no free IDE that supports code coverage for
> c++. Netbeans for example provides free plugins to investigate code
> coverage of java code.

I should maybe always google first before claiming something. There
seem to be unit testing, mock, and code coverage tools available for
C++ as well. Altough I have no idea how well they work, and how easy
they are to use.


> "Possibly easier scripting language support. I know that at least
>   Matlab supports directly importing and working with java objects
> from scratch"
> 
> MATLAB has a really good language support. You can even embed C++,
> Fortran or Ada code in an S-function and use it directly in SIMULINK.

Ok, granted. I guess for embedding of C++ (never did this before), you
only need some boilerplate code to announce the
classes/functions/whatever?

> I took a close look at the new Java 7 features a couple weeks ago.
> Especially the new Join/Fork framework offers a great
> support for compute intensive calculation on multiprocessor
> systems. Nevertheless, my gut feeling tells me that C + + is still
> more efficient.

My gut feeling tells the same; the question is just how much the
difference is. If it is, say 50%, this would not be a showstopper, if
you can compensate with ease of use. However, I have no quantitative
feeling here at all.

As I said, you are free to vote down this idea. It was just an idea
that was ripening over some time, and which needs to be decided for or
against.


Ulf