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[Fred A. Miller]

On Mon February 7 2005 11:05 pm, N. Thompson wrote:
> A lot of people already said exactly what you just said David, and I
> agree with you too. Another thing people have noted is that Java has the
> same problems because of JNI and really C and C++ are much more powerful
> and important languages than Java, and across most platforms are still
> the only programming languages which are officially supported by a full
> API. Cutting out C and C++ would be a huge mistake for anyone and would
> leave most customers looking for competing products that did support the
> two languages such as Borland's IDEs, plus if software were to be
> developed entirely in programming languages like Java everyone would
> need computers with at least three times the speed of whats available
> today in order to get close to the same performance out of those
> programming languages as C++ got out of computers about two years or so
> ago when people were all still using 800 MHz machines.

The real problem isn't the language used, it's MickySoft! If all this was 
being done open source, we'd all feel a LOT better about it, but it's not. 
The design and code is from the WORST company for both!

Fred

-- 
The only bug free software from MickySoft is still shrink-wrapped
in their warehouse..."