Re: New VSI post on Youtube

On 2024-08-20, bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/20/2024 8:29 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:

 

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I stopped working with Java almost a decade ago. (it coincided with
my retirement when I no longer had to do work for others!)
But, here goes....
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At times, Java itself seems to "feel" like it has been designed by theorists
with little real-world experience.

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What makes you think it wasn't?  Kinda like Ada.  The USAF came up
with an idea because they needed it for their jets.  Others got
involved resulting in a product that no longer met their needs.
DOD mandated Ada usage.  The USAF said no thank you and went back
to Jovial.  :-)
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Huh ? Ada has seen a _lot_ of use in safety-critical applications,
including in areas where there is no government mandate.

I can't speak to going back to Jovial (assuming you have not got
the details wrong), but the other choices such as C++ seemed to be
more political in nature once the mandate was dropped.

                                    All the classes-upon-classes when doing
I/O come to mind here.
 
And BTW, Java, is it .size() or .length() ??? Pick one and stick with it
when you design your classes. :-(
 

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To me size and length are not the same thing.  Strings have length.
Data types, pointers and the like have size.  Anything trying to
make the two interchangeable is just wrong.  :-)
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And to confuse this further, in Java an array has a .length variable
(not method), while ArrayList has a .size() method. :-)

Simon.

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