From: steve <steve@seasoned-software.com>
To: James Giles <jamesgiles@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: Which language pays most 17457 -- C++ vs. Java?
Date: 1997/12/18
Date: 1997-12-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
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James Giles wrote:
> steve wrote in message <3498B5A6.C404C703@seasoned-software.com>...
> ...
> >ACTUALLY, Linux itself, and many programs, are SYSTEMS code! Some
> >features can't or shouldn't be used, and it is ALWAYS more prone to
> >errors. It surprises me how well Linux generally runs, and rarely
> >crashes!
>
> An interesting attitude. The system is the one component of
> the programming environment that everyone *must* use every
> time they use the computer. It *should* be the most robust,
> efiicient, and secure piece of code on the machine.
You're right(and I said always more PRONE), but there always seems to be
problems somewhere. Especially if you are constantly upgrading it like
Linux. Whenever *I* see an error, it almost always gets fixed in the next
release.
> The attitude
> that it needn't be seems to be a UNIXism.
Most of what people consider UNIX is in peripheral programs. It isn't a
part of the kernel itself.One error in Linux that I have seen that I never
saw fixed(although others didn't seem to have the problem), is with
support of >2GB drives. THAT is one place where tricks have to be
pulled. I noticed that my disk repair utilities(though the latest from
the author) aren't doing such things, though Linux IS.
> To be sure, pre-UNIX
> systems had security an reliability problems (they were trying to
> make general purpose use of hardware we would now consider
> inadequate to run a toaster).
Well, TODAY all you have to do is diasable the fans, and VOILA! TOAST!
8-)
> There's no excuse for this attitude
> today - except that the vendors of systems have noticed that
> UNIX never failed in popularity because of these weaknesses.
> Bill Gates owes a lot to UNIX, if nothing else: for the pervasiveness
> of the attitude that the system *needn't* be secure, robust, and
> efficient.
And windows with its DLLS is? What of the security problems in IE4? ...
> >How many C programmers learned ONLY C? I doubt that it is very many.
>
> Well, you're welcome to your perceptions. I'd guess that
> only about 1 in 10 C (C++, maybe Java, etc...) programmers
> I've ever met had any real substantial experience with any
> language outside that group.
OK, I have different experiences with C programmers.
> Unless you count AWK or SED
> as real languages! Yet those with the least knowlwdge of other
> languages are always the quickest to dismiss languages
> with pat excuses ("Ada is too big", well it's smaller than C++
> and more cleanly designed - "Fortran makes you use GOTOs
> all the time", well it has all the "structured" flow control of any
> other language and actually restricts the use of GOTO more
> than C does - etc...).
>
> Now, among other things, I have in the past provided on-site
> maintenence for C compilers at a national laboratory. I dealt
> with C programmers from around the world and at a time when
> they could *not* claim that the language never caused them any
> problems: when they had a bug they couldn't identify or fix. So,
> while your perception may be different than mine, I'll still claim
> that mine is at least as valid. I'll say one thing, C programmers
> are extremely loyal: they always accept the blame for their bugs.
> Even when it's a kind of bug I see often in C programs and almost
> never in any other language, they don't blame the language.
Well, most things common to C that you would call bugs ARE generally
called features. It IS easier to make a mistake in C. I never heard
anyone claim otherwise! Although I HAVE seen COBOL people blame the
compiler for mistakes(and it often WAS responsible), THEY are certainly a
lowal group too!
> --
> J. Giles
> Ricercar Software
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1997-12-17 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1997-12-16 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-18 0:00 ` Alicia Carla Longstreet
1997-12-17 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-19 0:00 ` Larry Elmore
1997-12-19 0:00 ` James Giles
1997-12-18 0:00 ` John Seitz
1997-12-18 0:00 ` Robert Robbins
1997-12-19 0:00 ` Mark Wilden
1997-12-19 0:00 ` Ian Upright
1997-12-19 0:00 ` William Murray
1997-12-19 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-20 0:00 ` Robert Munck
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1997-12-17 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-18 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1997-12-17 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-19 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-12-17 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-22 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1997-12-21 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-28 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1997-12-18 0:00 ` James Giles
1997-12-17 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-19 0:00 ` James Giles
1997-12-18 0:00 ` steve [this message]
1997-12-19 0:00 ` James Giles
1997-12-18 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-19 0:00 ` James Giles
1997-12-22 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1997-12-21 0:00 ` James Giles
1997-12-21 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-30 0:00 ` Chris Gray
1997-12-28 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1997-12-28 0:00 ` John Winters
1997-12-30 0:00 ` paulr
1997-12-31 0:00 ` Which language pays most " arnie sherman
1997-12-30 0:00 ` Dann Corbit
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1997-12-29 0:00 ` Guillermo Schwarz
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