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From: Martin Gregorie <mar...@address-in-sig.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: some personal rambling on java the lang
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:40:24 +0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:40:21 -0700, Steve Sobol wrote:

> In article <i9l0lc$el...@news-int.gatech.edu>, Pidgeo...@verizon.invalid
> says...
>> 
>> On 10/19/2010 04:04 PM, George Neuner wrote:
>> > But Gosling did not simply remove redundancy, he also removed
>> > critical language functionality without offering an equivalent.   As
>> > compared to C++,  Java is less expressive and provides less
>> > functionality.
>> >
>> > How is that making it "better"?
>> 
>> If, in removing some functionality, you can cut the number of bugs by
>> eye-popping amounts, I would consider it better.
>> 
>> I presume you're referring to manual memory management and pointer
>> arithmetic as the tools that Java lacks to make it "less functional".
> 
> Not having to deal with memory management and pointer arithmetic is, by
> far, the biggest reason I prefer Java over C++.
+1

Pointer arithmetic probably has no place in a high-level language. And, 
no, much as I like it, I don't consider C to be a HLL - more a structured 
assembler.


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