Path: csiph.com!eeepc.pasdenom.info!news.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!news.osn.de!diablo2.news.osn.de!news.belwue.de!not-for-mail From: Thomas Richter Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Java vs C++ Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:01:35 +0100 Organization: InterNetNews at News.BelWue.DE (Stuttgart, Germany) Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <4d4d585c$0$81476$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <4d4d60dc$0$23763$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4d4d8322$0$41117$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <4d4f042b$0$23753$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4d4f4a54$0$23753$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: vpn-m-8d3a2f56.campus.uni-stuttgart.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.belwue.de 1297087295 2773 141.58.47.86 (7 Feb 2011 14:01:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.belwue.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 14:01:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100329) In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:25529 Lew wrote: > "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" spat: >>> Exercise for the reader: explain why Arne Vajhøj is wrong. For extra >>> credit, >>> list the implicit preconceptions that might have led to such a wrong >>> conclusion. > > "Exercise for the reader" because the writer couldn't come up with any > logical or reasoned arguments, so he waves his hands and exercises > trollishness instead. Not at all. The reason is exactly as already stated, namely that people seem to assume that the linker has no intelligence, or that there is a linker in first place. Nevertheless, the C++ standard doesn't even define linking, and the world is no longer that simple. Thus, I still don't see how this argument applies. Surely the C++ world works different from the java world, but saying that there is no duplicate code in Java or that there is always code duplication in C++ is surely wrong. Greetings, Thomas