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Re: Java vs C++

Date	2011-02-06 20:08 -0500
From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Java vs C++
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On 06-02-2011 18:23, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message<4d4e25e8@news.x-privat.org>, Ken Wesson wrote:
>> In that flamewar, someone estimated the size of Clojure's documentation
>> by browsing its website and counting pagedown keypresses needed to reach
>> the bottom of each web page.
>
> Funny, I did the same thing for Python, just for comparison
> <http://docs.python.org/py3k/reference/>. The figure I came up with for that
> Language Reference was 92 pages. To be fair, I suppose you should include
> the first 6 chapters of rhe Library Reference
> <http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/>, which is another 69 pages, for a
> total of 161.

Either Python is a simple language or the language reference is not
very detailed.

> For comparison, I have a couple of draft C99 specs floating around. They
> total 550 pages, until you realize most of that is section 7, the standard
> library. Leave that out, and you end up with 163 pages.

I am not sure that comparing a language reference with a standard
spec gives much meaning.

And the C spec leaves a lot of things to implementations.

Arne

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Re: Java vs C++ Owen Jacobson <angrybaldguy@gmail.com> - 2011-02-05 10:42 -0500
  Re: Java vs C++ Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-02-08 09:22 +1300
    Re: Java vs C++ Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-02-11 13:08 +1300
    Re: Java vs C++ Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-07 19:57 -0500
      Re: Java vs C++ Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-02-08 16:06 +1300
  Re: Java vs C++ Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-07 19:56 -0500
    Re: Java vs C++ Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-02-08 16:06 +1300
      Re: Java vs C++ Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-07 22:17 -0500
      Re: Java vs C++ Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-02-08 19:46 -0400
  Re: Java vs C++ Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-02-07 12:23 +1300
    Re: Java vs C++ Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-02-07 07:37 -0500
    Re: Java vs C++ Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-06 20:08 -0500
      Re: Java vs C++ Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-02-07 19:06 +1300
  Re: Java vs C++ Helium Balloon <hb.3459s._jsf3k@goo.abvg> - 2011-02-06 19:55 -0500
  Re: Java vs C++ Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-02-07 13:29 +1300
    Re: Java vs C++ Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-06 20:47 -0500
    Re: Java vs C++ Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-06 20:38 -0500
  Re: Java vs C++ Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-02-06 09:34 -0400

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