[geeks] Misuse of Java

Greg A. Woods woods at weird.com
Wed Nov 6 14:11:54 CST 2002


[ On Wednesday, November 6, 2002 at 14:50:26 (-0500), Dave McGuire wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Misuse of Java
>
>    Also, the embedded systems community is moving to Java in droves for 
> larger applications due to lack of bugs caused by misuse of dynamic 
> allocation and pointers.

I know of an embedded systems company that sanely came to the
realization that writing a safety critical system in Java was just about
as insane as running it on M$-Windoze would be and thus they chose
Smalltalk instead.

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