Re: Write in C++ and DIE a DOG's death?? High speed box comming!

What *I* want to know is, how come no one has raised an eyebrow about this high-speed box coming? On 10 Apr 98 at 22:39, Matthew O. Persico wrote: > Peter Lancashire wrote: > > > Personally, I prefer something compact, with an elegant design > > philosophy behind it, that can be extended gracefully, is readable and > > can be analyzed by tools. That includes Java but is arguable for C++. > > What about Smalltalk, Self, Eifel, Prolog, Lisp, Occam, M, Object > > Pascal, Oberon, etc? Uh. What about C? /bin/ksh? > > While I might write a Web site in Perl, I'd prefer avionics and banking > > to be in something a little more trustworthy. Oh, I don't know. Based on my experience of Java, I'd rather have my avionics and banking written in Natural than Java... :-) > Well, Peter, which do you want? I wouldn't call C++ compact or Java > trustworthy. How many times has the JVM in your browser crashed lately? Can't argue with that. > OTOH, I have plenty of production stuff in PERL and have had zero, yes > zero instances in recent memory where a Perl program "crashed". Wanna job? :-) -- Ciao, Billy /Group Managing Director, The West Solutions Group: http://www.west.co.za \\ Drivel @ http://www.west.co.za/tasteless/ / \\ "Granted, Mr Wheeler's ideas are stupid and unreasonable, but he does own the company and I / think we should go along with him..." \\________________________________________________________________________________________________