Hi Scoobz Why Java?..... in that case I might as well use VB or even C# (yyyyyak!). No, C++ for the following reasons : Faster, More robust, templates enable compiler code generation, reducing programmer effort. NOT Proprietary (ie FREE). No runtime stuff required... compile and run...done. (ok so you have to compile for each platform but at least you don't need a massive installation of an SDK/JRE just to write your code and test it).
What's more....ALUG members already inhabit a world of their own, why stick em in a virtual machine as well? No...much safer as true compiled binary entities, sanity could be affected otherwise : Imagine waking up one day, realising you inhabit another world, deciding to return to reality only to find that reality is only virtual afterall. Better to find the real world when the light comes on... The Russian Doll complexes generated within each alugite would require very capable virtual psychologists to mend their tiny minds (Or so much virtual beer and pizza that the JRE would crash!) What's more, Alugites, being lovers of freedom could well suffer terrible repercussions should they one day discover "(c) Sun Microsystems" stamped all over their little worlds.... waking up in a virtual machine and then having to agree to a license in order to function......now that is scary! And finally, C++ makes it much easier to code overflowable buffers into each member, to be used in conjunction with my new proprietary 'Take over the world by rooting Linux Users' program, which does exactly what it says on the tin (written in C however for even greater performance... will have to be run on an i386 with 2mb of RAM - but thats another story).
Sorry 'bout that bit of existential nonesense, the truth is I can't write java. Sussed! Regs Earl PS Aaaaaargghh to you too!
On 28 June 2001 13:03, Neill Newman [SMTP:neill@entora.co.uk] wrote:
Earl Brannigan wrote:
Have set out below a functional C++ code framework. Feel Free to edit
to
include yourself ... I have commented where to do this, a simple copy
and
paste replacing details with your own should suffice
aarrgghh, write it in Java and I might read it ;)..
/me puts on flame proof suit, rubbber boots and non-explodable underpants Sz
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