Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!nuzba.szn.dk!news.szn.dk!pnx.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:09:42 -0400 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Arithmetic overflow checking References: <015aeb15-57db-48ab-9cd4-77f8448b632f@w24g2000yqw.googlegroups.com> <2rydnez7l-H5BYnTnZ2dnUVZ_vGdnZ2d@earthlink.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4e278a67$0$309$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source NNTP-Posting-Host: 72.192.23.157 X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=];l>:^DJZJdMMDg2]64EMfYSB=nbEKnkk@IQ>cfbXVefJPe3\kP5EUaKBm9cfh9BSdM2;kT<[:>[a^\^m:T0bBgm_>@TPG=BiQg X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:6320 On 7/16/2011 12:29 AM, MikeP wrote: > Patricia Shanahan wrote: >> and then complain when there is a >> mismatch between that language's features and their current >> requirements. > > In another post, I said that I think that today (like in right now) the > awareness of the overflow issue (language support) has achieved critical > mass. Combine that with the alternatives that are available and more yet > to come, a language cannot afford to go the path of, say, C anymore for > it will lose relevance much more quickly. It's not complaining. It's > customer feedback (companies BEG their customers for such!). Companies > that don't recognize their customers needs and change with the times, go > out of business. Java is not C and can't afford to stagnate like C did > (OK, C++ gave it a "reconditioning"), or it won't last. It seems highly unlikely that the lack of overflow detection will have any impact on the usage of Java. The typical business app does not care. Arne