[antlr-interest] Re: Why Java programmers are more productive...

atripp54321 atripp at comcast.net
Wed Oct 27 13:16:41 PDT 2004



--- In antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com, "Paul J. Lucas"
<pauljlucas at m...> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, atripp54321 wrote:
> 
> > See <a href="http://jazillian.com/reasons.html">here</a> 
> > For about 50 reasons why I think Java programmers are
> > more productive than C programmers. Most of the reasons apply
> > to C++ too.
> 
> 	Although I generally loath to enter a language Jihad, many of
> 	the comments there are disingenuous.  For example, the comment
> 	"Java has a built-in boolean type" gives an example of how, in
> 	C, you can accidentally do:
> 
> 		int x;
> 		/* ... */
> 		if ( x = TRUE )		/* oops: meant x == TRUE */
> 			/* ... */;
> 
> 	The author "conveniently" fails to point out that you can do
> 	the exact same thing in Java as the following is perfectly
> 	legal Java code:
> 
> 		boolean x;
> 		// ...
> 		if ( x = true )		// oops: meant x == true
> 			/* ... */;

Yea, good point. I'll fix that.

> 
> 	Besides, it's not like Java invented the Boolean type.

The title is "reasons why Java is better than C", not
"Things that are new in Java". In fact, almost nothing is
new in Java.

Andy

> 
> 	- Paul





 
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