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Subject: Re: Java versus C Speed Comparison

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 01:23:56 01/11/03

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On January 11, 2003 at 02:10:45, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:

>On January 10, 2003 at 21:34:38, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>
>Well, it survived 30+ years, so history is saying something. IMHO, the data
>types had a lot to do with the success of the language. It allowed to write
>portable and efficient code for diversed machines with completely different word
>sizes, and I did not make that up, it really happened.
>
>The bottom line is that you do not like the data type structures but I do.
>It is a matter of taste.
>

As I said earlier in the thread, having both kinds is not a problem. They are
really orthogonal design concepts, and both can be present. They are in Ada. It
was a good thing that C didn't force people to choose a specific width for their
ints, but it was a bad thing that it didn't allow the programmer to specify the
width when it was actually important. It is one of the very deep problems of C
that almost everything a programmer writes is underspecified. In Ada you have a
much better granularity of expressibility.

/David



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