From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 6 8:13:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84E3B37B400 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 08:13:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from caddis.yogotech.com (caddis.yogotech.com [206.127.123.130]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA23994; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 09:13:27 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by caddis.yogotech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g26GDMc33790; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 09:13:22 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15494.16418.45131.322945@caddis.yogotech.com> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 09:13:22 -0700 To: Brett Glass Cc: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C vs C++ In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020306075350.00ddfb00@localhost> References: <3C857080.44C5236B@mindspring.com> <20020305193028.H6706-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020306075350.00ddfb00@localhost> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I can write reliable code in C, but I also know that it takes so much > time, effort, and triple-checking that it saps my productivity. That's > why I strongly favor safer languages. (Those who were at BSDCon this > year may have seen the worm blocker/IDS I wrote for FreeBSD in 28 lines > of SNOBOL4....) So, why don't you like Java if you like safer languages? Have you *tried* do something in Java, or are you assuming that's it's a bad language because of it's C-like syntax? Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message