[ale] Corel/Sun/JAVA observation

Mandrake mandrake at mandrake.net
Mon Dec 13 18:34:23 EST 1999


On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 06:18:01PM -0500, Joe Knapka wrote:
> Not necessarily. Java code doesn't -have- to be bloated
> and evil; it's just that Java makes it so much easier to
> write bloated and evil code than clean and elegant code.
> Plus, all the nice tools people build to write our Java
> for us actually do produce bloated and evil code...

I'm not making an assumption about all bytecode.  bytecode doesn't HAVE to be
slow.  Small is nice and fast as far as bytecode languages go.  (check out my
linux port of small: http://enlightenment.org/cvs.html - the "esmall" cvs
module)

of course I'm probably biased anyways.

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