[rescue] slow java code...an example of why it might be happening

[Dave McGuire]

On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 03:10 PM, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
>>    There's a such thing as a programming language whose conceptual 
>> level
>> is TOO HIGH.  This is a big problem with inexperienced programmers.
>> Most of the horribly slow and bloated C++ code that I've looked 
>> through
>> suffers from problems very much like the one I described above, and I
>> suspect all the commercial farmed-out-to-India bloatware that you guys
>> are bitching about is like this as well.
>
> It's not that the conceptual level is too high.  Writing slow code like
> you example is just fine, for a prototype.

   I would *never* write a program that way, even as a prototype.  And 
neither would you.

>   The programmer in question
> just didn't know how to think on more than one level.  Get him to do
> assembly, and he probably would never be able to do a single 
> significant
> program in his life.

   Then this person shouldn't be writing software!

       -Dave

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