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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ad19,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad19,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-06 14:05:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.bc.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.clarion,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml Subject: Re: Long names are doom ? Organization: Canadian Mind Products Reply-To: roedy@mindprod.com Message-ID: References: <83WP6.3874$yc6.728572@news.xtra.co.nz> <+FWVg+noA0yk@eisner.encompasserve.org> <9fjfc4$qdv$1@news.fsu.edu> <9fjkha$re7$1@bugstomper.ihug.com.au> <9fkp2m$9gn$1@bugstomper.ihug.com.au> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 21:05:10 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.76.128.193 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.bc.home.com 991861510 24.76.128.193 (Wed, 06 Jun 2001 14:05:10 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 14:05:10 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8263 comp.lang.awk:2829 comp.lang.clarion:21244 comp.lang.java.programmer:74196 comp.lang.pl1:824 comp.lang.vrml:3565 Date: 2001-06-06T21:05:10+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 18:18:29 +1000, "Blaikie" wrote or quoted : >what makes u say reflection is so slow? Ask Jonathan Revusky about that, then watch the steam shoot from his ears. He unsuccessfully tried to convince our boss from using reflection in a project we both once worked on. Reflection is a fun toy, suitable for bean boxes and the like where, but there are much faster ways of handling the usual production cases. For more detail, please look up the key words mentioned in this post in the Java Glossary at: http://mindprod.com/gloss.html If you don't see what you were looking for, complain! or send your contribution for the glossary. -- Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products Custom computer programming since 1963. Ready to take on new work.