Re: My considerations on C++ & Java

Hi Forrest,

slkc> What I really want to say is the feeling on using them. Of
slkc> course different guys have different feeling.

Yes. This is something that people often forget. It's not just the
language, but how how much you *like* that language and how easy it is
for your brain to understand it. I don't care for C-based languages.
It's not that I don't understand them, and I can use them if I have
to, I just don't like them as much.

You make another good point about libraries being important. Knowing
the .NET libraries is probably more important than knowing every
detail of C# or VB.NET. And you can't write apps without them. The
same is sort of true with Java. It's less so with C and C++ IME. At
the other extreme, if you write in Forth, you are probably going to
create almost everything from raw materials.

Someone else mentioned the context, which is also critical; both the
target application and the business environment. OO is a good paradigm
for some things, but I don't think for everything. Is it the best
model for a distributed system compared to, say, something like
Erlang?

Use your judgement. Find tools you like. And if something isn't
working, try something else.

Best of luck,

--Gregg