On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 04:39:00PM +0200, FRIGN wrote: > Good day fellow hackers, > > Over the years I've wondered why we at suckless are still using such > slow and antiquated languages like C and Bash instead of advanced and > really fast ones like Java or C#.
I think that is a fantastic idea! I wanted to propose something like that myself but I didn't dare to... > To adress this problem, I'm currently working on porting sbase to Java > to bring more performance into this piece of software and make it suck > less and more memory-efficient. > Using Java, I found many ways to improve the echo-command. For > instance, using a LinkedList of LinkedLists of Characters allows easy > storage of parameters and easy access through LinkedList- and > LinkedList<LinkedList>-Iterators. > A StringBuffer is used to store the output. > -- > Longer code usually is safer, because there are more ways to do it > right. > -- > As of now, I only ported the echo-command into echo.java. More will > come. > Please let me know what you think about this great advancement. Looks good! I DID notice though that you do not make use of any factories in your code which has me worried a little bit. Ideally you would take some inspiration from https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition and then refactor. We are professionals here afterall. > Happy hacking! Thanks for the great contribution! Hope to see more soon! Cheers, Silvan
