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Date:      Fri, 21 Jun 2002 04:35:55 +0100
From:      j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
To:        Mikhail Kruk <meshko@cs.brandeis.edu>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Future of Java question....
Message-ID:  <20020621043555.A2658@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020620203124.E94323@agora.rdrop.com>; from alan@batie.org on Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 08:31:24PM -0700
References:  <20020621035341.A2383@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206202256180.26680-100000@daedalus.cs.brandeis.edu> <20020621041657.A2565@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020620203124.E94323@agora.rdrop.com>

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On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 08:31:24PM -0700, Alan Batie wrote:
| On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 04:16:57AM +0100, j mckitrick wrote:
| > Interesting.  Verizon here in the states claim they moved all their
| > online apps to .Net.  I wonder what kind they are?
| 
| Maybe that explains why their web site doesn't work very well.
| 
| Personally, I don't think the bloat is inherent in the language; we
| need to be pushing for better implementations.

But when you take network connections, and turn them into simple classes
that only need to be instantiated, you are encapsulating a huge amount
of socket/connection code.  That equals bloat, correct?  Maybe the
language itself is efficient, but OOP is not.

jm
-- 
Java on a laptop: the JIT hits the fan.

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