From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 8 14:50:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60AC016A420 for ; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 14:50:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EF0743D46 for ; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 14:50:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EvbsM-0006HY-R4 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2006 15:50:30 +0100 Received: from c-24-147-87-49.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([24.147.87.49]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Jan 2006 15:50:30 +0100 Received: from jdarnold by c-24-147-87-49.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Jan 2006 15:50:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: JD Arnold Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 09:43:28 -0500 Organization: Amazing Developments Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <20060108011528.GA4811@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> <20060108014603.26952.qmail@web33310.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-147-87-49.hsd1.ma.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) In-Reply-To: <20060108014603.26952.qmail@web33310.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: news Subject: Re: Programming Book(s) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 14:50:34 -0000 Danial Thom wrote: > > --- "Michael P. Soulier" > wrote: > >> On 07/01/06 Jorge Biquez said: >> >>> Hello all. Very interesting comments and >> suggestions. >>> I hope my question does not seems too off >> topic. Do you think the path to >>> follow for developing applications for the >> new PDA, Smartphones, Ipaq and >>> similar devices it is the same? C or C++? I >> have some friends that said it >>> is the only way but I am not sure of that. >> Any experiences or comments.? >> >> With the kind of hardware that can be put into >> a device like that these days, >> it's hard to tell, but I tend to see C/C++. >> Occasionally I see Java, sometimes >> Python. >> >> There is no rule for this, you simply use the >> right tool for the job. >> > > Am I the only one that has noticed that virtually > everything written in Java sucks? I don't > understand why its used. Is having a program that > sucks on multiple platforms really an advantage > over having a program that is good on 1 or 2 > platforms? I really don't get it. You should read Joel Spotsky's diatribe against "Java Schools", where many colleges are stooping to teaching in Java, leaving most students woefully unprepared for the real world, and making it hard for someone to separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to hiring: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are.