[geeks] Misuse of Java

[Dave McGuire]

On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 03:11 PM, Greg A. Woods 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.

   Wow...someone actually USING smalltalk.  I've been programming 
professionally for about eighteen years, and nonprofessionally for 
about five before that...and I've NEVER heard of anyone using smalltalk.

   Ever.

        -Dave

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