Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++?

I never got the point of Java. It has terrible performance and is much more complicated then Python. If you want performance go to C/C++, if you want produtivicty go Python. So why Java?

2010/10/14 Kris Calabio &lt;cpczk(a)yahoo.com&gt; > That's assuming that you begin using java with an IDE. I never started > using eclipse until after like a couple years of programming. As long as > you have the Java API on your system, doing it all on terminal is easy. > > I see what you're saying though about "take this as given, ignore it for > now." What does public static void main( String[] args ) even mean anyway, > right? Personally, I think the low-levelness of C might be a little > intimidating. I've never used Python before, but it seems like it would be > a better first language than Java. > > -Kris > > --- On *Thu, 10/14/10, Philipp ??berbacher &lt;hollunder(a)lavabit.com&gt;* wrote: > > > From: Philipp ??berbacher &lt;hollunder(a)lavabit.com&gt; > > Subject: Re: [LAU] OT: C or C++? > To: "linux-audio-user" &lt;linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org&gt; > Date: Thursday, October 14, 2010, 11:10 AM > > > Excerpts from Kris Calabio's message of 2010-10-14 19:22:32 +0200: > > What are everyone's honest thoughts on Java? When I started Computer > Science at my school, they were teaching Java. Personally, I thought it > nice to learn from. I then moved on to C and C++ pretty smoothly. (Though > I still have alot to learn in C++). > > > > -Kris > > I'm not experienced in any language but I've dabbled with a few, and > imho java and how it's taught here is far too complicated or rather > distracting. > > The first thing newbies see, before hello world, is a beast like > eclipse, which alone causes a whole bunch of problems. Then they have > to mess with packages, and classes, and objects, although they teach it > here by saying "take this as given, ignore it for now". The next thing > they see are some funky classes that allow proper input/output because > java doesn't seem to have that. Only then they get to start programing > and can deal with javas built in funkyness. > What does the following example evaluate to? > 1.2+3+"||"+3+2.1 > > I think there's far too much distracting mess to sort out before you > even get to programing, so I don't think it's a good teaching language > (for total beginners at least). > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org<http://mc/compose?to=Linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org> > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > >

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