Author: Heiko Mikala
Date: 15:57:23 02/25/00
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On February 24, 2000 at 01:04:02, Pete Galati wrote: >On February 23, 2000 at 23:36:30, John Coffey wrote: > >>I have some MFC experience but probably not enough to slap an interface together >>really quickly. Somebody told me that Visual BASIC is a fast way to write >>interfaces, but I don't know. (I used VB 1.0 like 10 years ago and haven't >>touched it since.) >> >>I have never used JAVA, but wondered if it might be a fast way to put together >>an interface and if it can link to C programs? >> >>John Coffey > >Some of the Java code I've looked at (not much) looked an awfull lot like C to >me, so it might not be so horribly difficult (not that I would know) but I've >never in my life seen anything I liked done in Java. Programs like Jester are >amusing, but that's about it, I don't take it seriouslly. I guess the reason why many people say they don't like Java is, that they only know Java from small (often not very good) applets running in browsers (I'm not referring to Jester here!). Most people don't know, that this is only one (small) part of the Java language. In fact you can write full-blown standalone applications using Java, which do not differ at all from applications written in C++ for example. In fact I've been doing that during the last year. I wrote some database applications in Java, and I found Java - and it's class libraries - great for this task. I even thought about writing a completely new chess program using Java. Maybe I'll do that some day, when I'm fed with my current chess program, which is written in C :) Greetings, Heiko.
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