Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!lust.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Managed-Code Bloat Followup-To: comp.lang.java.programmer Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:13:30 +1200 Organization: Geek Central Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 118-92-86-36.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Trace: lust.ihug.co.nz 1307402010 31381 118.92.86.36 (6 Jun 2011 23:13:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ihug.co.nz NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 23:13:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/4.4.11 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5041 In message , Arved Sandstrom wrote: > On 11-06-06 08:04 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> In message , Arved Sandstrom wrote: >> >>> Right at the end the author says: >>> >>> "The development team lacks the resources to build equivalent >>> functionality in native code. >>> >>> "The last point is important. Maybe a hotshot team of C/C++ developers >>> could make a better job, but if you don’t have such a team or the money >>> to hire it, it is not so relevant." >>> >>> In other words, and this has nothing whatsoever to do with corporate >>> software, unless you're in that 5 percent (probably less) of current >>> programmers who can write high-quality C++, ... >> >> Maybe that’s the point: such skills are less common among corporate >> types. > > That's very likely true, but not for the reasons you'd like to think. So you concede my point. > I'll hazard a guess that you suck pretty hard at a whole bunch of > programming languages. I have published code in a whole bunch of different languages, just in this noisegroup alone. And there’s more in my GitHub area, as well as a patch or two floating around elsewhere. I will happily listen to criticism from you ... the day that you can do the same.