Re: Object World on Aug 20

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: http://www.marimba.com/~jpayne (Jonathan Payne)
 > Date: Fri  Aug 23, 11:35am
 >
 > Hi.
 > 
 > Yeah, the talk went OK, but the problem was I didn't really know much
 > about what I was talking about.  So I just made something up and hoped
 > that people would dig it.  Some of them did.
 > 
 > Also, I think it was supposed to be more technical, something that
 > wasn't really communicated very well by the people in charge.
 > 
 > Oh, well.
 > 
 > Hope you are well!
 > 

I'm OK.  I went to a thingy yesterday at Windows Intranet Solutions at the
Moscone Center in S.F. on Visual J++ (aka Jakarta).  It seems like a very
nifty system, but, I don't know, it seems like (I don't know if I should
say this) like Java has so many of the limitations that C++ has.  I guess
it's well suited to be downloaded across the net and so on, but it seems
like writing a large application which then had to be enhanced and
maintained would be as much a problem in Java as C++.  It does seem like
an excellent language for promoting reuse, but the class inheritance
paradigm seems like it has some inconveniences that make it harder to
expand as new features need to be added to a system.  It seems like some
aspect of dynamicsism (is this even a word?) is needed, an ability to set
up seemless delegation or something.  But I suppose this would cost undue
CPU time that can't be afforded on little embedded computers.

(I mean, I'm even struggling to get my stupid PC to run Linux and keep
failing because of successive hardware problems!  I guess the state of
hardware isn't what I perceived it to be...)