On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:03:13PM +0000, Andrew Savory wrote:
Hi,
On 3 Nov 2004, at 15:33, Matt Parker wrote:
And saying you'd use ANYTHING other than Java in, presumably, all cases demonstrates your inability to choose the right tool objectively.
Tsk, Matt, don't feed the troll ;-)
It's my bridge, pay the toll, dammit!
In the case of Java, it wins hands down on anything to do with the Internet that is more involved than a few scripted pages, and it wins hands down in terms of character encodings and language conversion.
I wouldn't say "hands down", but it certainly excels at being a modern-day language with sensible support for encodings. Anyone know how C# stacks up in this respect?
There are places where it works, I'll give it that, cocoon is a fine example of something written in Java that does actually work.
C# seems to be coming along in leaps and bounds as part of the mono project, and now there's lots of Gnome developers writing things with it, I can see only good things happening in the future. My origional concerns with the language were that Microsoft were going to screw it up, as with most things they touch (IMO), but that appears, so far, to not be happening. I keep meaning to get round to playing with it further, but time constraints have meant otherwise.
Thanks,