Re: [Open_Gaming] ANOTHER REPOST from "Open-Gaming" List

[Brian C. Robinson]

On Thu, 4 May 2000, J. Michael Looney wrote:

> This (lack of marketshare) has nothing to do with open/closed software and
> every thing to do with the fact that p-code systems suck when compared to
> native code systems.    I don't care how fast the CPU is, the overhead of
> interpreted languages, I don't care which one, is going to bite when put
> up against a native code application, assuming that the skill levels of
> the respective programmers is any where near close.
> 
        This is true, but my point and others here is that EFFICIENCY
DOESN'T MATTER.  Who cares if your word processor is five percent slower?
Nobody is arguing about runtime efficiency here.  But Java is an easy to
use programming language, and it is fully object oriented.  Efficiency
mattered 10+ years ago a lot, but these days its just not as important as
making the programmers more productive.

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