On 2/13/07, Mark Higbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
True I guess that is why they invented IDE's.
Have the IDE's gotten any better? Hopefully they are not all written in
Java since the one I tried a while back was written in Java and was so
painfully slow even on a decent system. I think it was the free
community version you could download from sun I can't remember what it
was called anymore I gave up on it.
You used an old version of NetBeans with a slow JRE.
Java is basically as fast as C++ now, and NetBeans has improved their
code to be faster. Try Java 6 (java.sun.com) and the latest NetBeans
(netbeans.org). Eclipse is faster still.
Why not make the language so you don't have to use an Advanced
auto-completion feature to keep you sane? Good thing there are a few
languages out there like that.
Good question. The reason is that:
A) The auto-completion feature isn't there to keep you "sane", it's
there to make you even more productive than you could be in another
language. The high-quality, fast and intelligent, auto-completion
that a statically typed language gives you would not be possible in a
non-statically typed language.
B) The language could be less verbose, thus reducing the keystrokes,
but I think you're saying, "Why not just use a scripting language?"
Because scripting languages are comparatively slow. Java is insanely
fast.
-Bryan
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