objective c and the death of java?

[Jonathan Greenberg]

A friend of mine has been working fairly closely with SUN (he is the 
co-head of the LinuxPPC project) and, in his opinion, JAVA will 
probably dissappear at some point, largely due to the performance 
issue-- it is a toy, basically.  I learned JAVA before I knew even C, 
and find Obj C to be far superior -- the only real reason to use Java 
over something else is if you want to embed the applet in a web page 
for others to use (distribution for obj-c swarm programs is a 
nightmare-- compilation on other systems can be incredibly difficult, 
especially if they don't have swarm, RPM or you don't have access to 
other architectures...  )  The sim I recently wrote takes 8 HOURS to 
run on my PowerMac 7500/100 written in Obj C, with a JAVA JIT 
Compiler I'd have to come back a month later to get my results...

Just my two cents...

--j



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Jonathan Greenberg
Graduate Group in Ecology, U.C. Davis
http://www.anthro.ucdavis.edu/~greenberg
AIM: jgrn307
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