Greetings. On Wed, 02 Apr 2014 09:11:34 +0200 FRIGN <d...@frign.de> 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#. > 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.
This is great news. Now that suckless has reached the future we will see a bright horizont of pleasure and commercial support. Sincerely, Christoph Lohmann
