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Re: Java vs C++

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In message <JBk4p.101614$ZS4.35831@newsfe07.iad>, Arved Sandstrom wrote:

> On 11-02-07 11:06 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> In message<4d50949a$0$23755$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 
>>> Real C apps that will run predictable on any platform is
>>> pretty rare.
>>
>> Really?? We have them coming out our ears. I have thousands of them
>> installed on my system alone. Let’s see, the Linux kernel, 15 million
>> lines of source code, almost entirely in C, portable across about two
>> dozen different major processor architectures. GCC, Apache, Python,
>> Blender (a million lines of C, plus about 220 thousand lines of C++),
>> Gimp ... the list goes on and on.
>>
> You've got a very optimistic definition of "portable" happening there.
> It may come as a surprise to you, but all sorts of #ifdefs and
> platform-specific configure scripts and makefiles don't mean that you've
> got portable code - all of that is a response to the fact that you've
> got _non-portable_ code.

It is more portable than any Java code you can point to. QED.

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Re: Java vs C++ Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-02-11 11:40 +1300

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