Author: Graham Laight
Date: 01:17:47 07/31/03
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On July 30, 2003 at 00:00:54, Robert Hyatt wrote: >Depends on your ultimate goal. If you are going to be a programmer, it is >not the best way to go. If you program in Java for 4 years, then leave and >go to work where they use C, you have a _long_ learning curve. You've never >seen pointers, for example. > >We took a _lot_ of heat about that from companies like BellSouth. It sounds to me as though Java is better than C, because it prevents errors with type. For most businesses, the most pressing requirement is to make good code cost-effectively - not to make super-fast code expensively. C is clearly going to take longer to write and debug if it doesn't force type compatibility. Imagine you were a medical professor. You teach your students to treat illness with medicine. The local doctors complain, saying that the standard methodology in your area is to treat illness with leaches. Would you change your curriculum? It seems to me that this is analogous to what you have done with your programming curriculum. -g
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