Lars Gullik BjÃnnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Andreas Vox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> | I've been a happy Java Programmer for the last 7 years so I "missed" (*)
> | all this new C++ stuff like templates, namespaces, exceptions and rtti.
>
> Just by looking at java I feel strait-jacketed.
>
Can't expect a free climber to use a chairlift, eh? ;-)
> | A decent language shouldn't have a preprocessor, pointer arithmetic,
>
> Then don't use them. And as you see in LyX we use these as little as
> possible.
Yes. Unfortunately one can't take the same approach for the preprocessor,
at least for the include files.
>
> | automatic datatype conversion
>
> Ha. java does this as well.
Not bool <-> int <-> pointer.
What about this code:
if ( 1 < x < 10 ) {
printf("yes");
}
else {
printf("no");
}
a) Should it compile?
b) What should it print for different values of x?
> | BTW, does anyone know the type of the expression
> >
> | bind(&Impl::finishedGenerating, this, _1, _2)
> >
> | where Impl is PreviewLoader::Impl ?
>
> Why would you need it?
Declaring a function which takes it as an argument?
>
> | Ok, I better stop now.
>
> Loosing battle on this list.
Well, at least most of the repliers shared my view that
commutativity of array access is both insane and funny.
> The only thing I miss from Java is the nice libraries (with the crappy
> api's)
Ah, not all of them have crappy apis! :-) The problem is that most things
which were integrated into Java the first time were 10-20 years behind:
AWT 1.0 api, first garbage collector algorithm (too slow), multithreading
and synchronizing (even slower), JVM design, ...
It's just now that the really top things pop up: Hotspot JVM, Generics,
faster GC and sync algorithms.
Cheers
/Andreas
P.S. What about a Java frontend to LyX for true platform independence?
