Re: GCC3 and compiled java (was Why Objective-C over Java?)
Re: GCC3 and compiled java (was Why Objective-C over Java?)
- Subject: Re: GCC3 and compiled java (was Why Objective-C over Java?)
- From: Deirdre Saoirse Moen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 13:36:03 -0700
At 3:09 PM -0400 5/26/01, Jay Timmer wrote:
Not that these will alleviate all the concerns people have voiced over java,
but if both come to pass, then two of the major performance concerns would
be taken care of.
I think developers should choose the most appropriate tool and that
development teams should make informed choices depending on the
constraints for their tasks -- and that choice of development tools,
depending on development methodology, will happen early or later in
the process.
I don't believe in choosing the tool simply because one knows it;
certainly time to learn other tools should be a factor in the
decision. If you use the same tool all the time, you find yourself
ten years down the road as a one-hit wonder -- and everyone else is
tired of that one hit and has moved on.
Part of my crankiness comes from clueless CTOs starting companies and
stating things like "we will use Java!" (echos of an earlier bad
experience with Smalltalk, despite the fact that most of what I was
doing could not be done with the version of Smalltalk being shoved
down our throats). Unfortunately, this cluelessness is pervasive in
Silicon Valley, where some venture capitalists have specifically
funded "Java startups."
For me, my crankiness is not about Java so much as the hype
surrounding Java -- and the side effects thereof.
--
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