In reply to Arron's comments: > ...Uhh. What are you implying? .NET came up with reflection yes but Java also came out with reflection 6 years ago. This is nothing new.
> ... Marc, I think you're falling into the same trap that you're suggesting XAML programmers will fall into in a couple of years and that is that M$ invented reflection. Reflection has been around for 6 years in Java - this is not anything new. Oh, sorry! I didn't mean to imply ignorance of this fact (I have other ignorances). I have, however, been a C++ programmer most of my life (6502, Basic, SAIL, Fortran, Pascal, C++, in that order actually), and my experience with Java was, admittedly, not very good. A lot of decisions were made based on how very different Java-based UI's look compared to what the customer would be expecting in a Windows app to look and feel like. I still get thrown in weird subtle ways when I run a Java client app. Java being interpreted for a long time was a problem too. I was working on projects that needed good performance, and I didn't want to interface to a compiled code base simply for the "convenience" of writing the non-critical stuff in Java. I think that's sort of the point--we programmers can ooh and ahh over the coolness of things like reflection in Java, but darn it, the end user experience has to look acceptable to the end user. Java apps (like Oracle's installer) look weird. I haven't looked at Java in ages and will profess total ignorance--can Java apps be written in compiled form now interfacing to native Windows controls? Why did I jump on the C# bandwagon? Because C# controls are just native Windows controls, they look and feel like what the user expects, and it's easy to interface to my existing C++ code base. And that's what's important to me, and that's why I haven't moved away from C++/MFC development until now. (Again, I looked once at interfacing C++ code with Java, and looked like an unstable nightmare, but that was years ago). > .. And that's one of the reasons why I really really respect you and smile when I see your Web page - you're calling 'em as you see them. Thanks! I'll try to live up to the task! Marc ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ xul-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-talk
