On 15:53 24 Jun 2003, Bill Gradwohl <bill@xxxxxxx> wrote:
| Are there any professional Programmers on this list?
I'm an amateur.
| In particular, I'm a C/C++ bigot looking for someone to help convince me to become a Java bigot instead. 8-)
Type safety.
Platform GUI portability. Hell, plain old platform portability!
No overt memory management. (No malloc/free/new/dispose.) So no dangling
pointers etc. And of course type casting checks at runtime, array bounds
checks at runtime, etc etc.
Simpler than C++ (single inheritance, no templates). I like that, but if
you're a C++ bigot you will find this a minus maybe.
Of course, I'm an anal retentive Computer Science trained guy, so I like
the compiler to have as many hooks for telling me what I've forgotten
as possible. And thus welcome some of the hoop jumping.
Cheers,
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