From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PLING_QUERY,PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) Subject: Re: How big is an int? (was: Yet another stupid language war (was: ... the only languages you need!!)) Date: 1997/11/24 Message-ID: <65b1m5$dvk$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 292041516 References: <64fbr2$76k$1@route1.mdrf.france3.fr> <879901314snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <3473B088.3227@dynamite.com.au> <64ve5n$c6m$1@helios.crest.nt.com> <3474C1F0.365A@dynamite.com.au> <6527n9$340@mtinsc05.worldnet.att.net> <34767515.5253@dynamite.com.au> Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. NNTP-Posting-User: ok Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-11-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: >The funny thing about this is that the students, who think they are following >the latest fad, have *just* missed the boat, no doubt by mid-semester they >will be complaining that they are not being taught Java. >Actually of course, the whole idea of students telling professors what to >teach has its amusing side :-) I just heard today about the .stop, .suspend, and .resume methods on threads being "deprecated" in Java now. Why people want a language where things like this get sorted out a couple of _years AFTER_ people were told this was the new fashionable thing instead of a language where things like this were hammered out in hundreds of pages of studies _before_ people had to use them is beyond me. -- John �neas Byron O'Keefe; 1921/02/04-1997/09/27; TLG,TLTA,BBTNOTL. Richard A. O'Keefe; RMIT Comp.Sci; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/%7Eok