On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 08:07:30PM -0600, Darryl Palmer Jr wrote: > Trust me, Java sux. The benefit of writing in Java was to be able to > support, download, and execute bots that other people write. Java allows > you to run other code under different security from the main process, so > you can limit people from accessing methods that you don't want them to. > The other point was that more new programmers are probably learning Java > more than C or C++, and it would be easier to support Java written bots > with a Java based client. It is true that one could write a JNI interface > for the bots to work with the C code but that is a path I didn't want to > go down. I dunno... I like Java. It fixes quite a few of the goof-ups made in C++. I just wouldn't trust it for any sort of real time system, such as Netrek. Although... now that gcc can compile java... I may be forced to re-analyze my position... mark -- mark at mielke.cc/markm at ncf.ca/markm at nortelnetworks.com __________________________ . . _ ._ . . .__ . . ._. .__ . . . .__ | Neighbourhood Coder |\/| |_| |_| |/ |_ |\/| | |_ | |/ |_ | | | | | | \ | \ |__ . | | .|. |__ |__ | \ |__ | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them... http://mark.mielke.cc/