On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:48:17PM -0800, . . wrote:
> having worked with java in the past, it is very unwieldly as a tool
> and a royal pain. i wouldn't recommend that as a development base
> for this app (or any for that matter). probably ANSI or clean C
> would be my recommendation -- along with adequate documentation
> ;-). at some point this code can be integrated directly into the
> client as a library and invoked via command line switch
> "--check-config" or something. apache httpd has a similar command
> line to validate the syntax of the config file.

If you prefer C over Java for simple tasks such as a config utility,
that include a GUI...

Something is wrong. :-)

If anything, the main complaint against Java is that it is *too* easy,
and therefore limiting. People who claim C++ is better than Java, are
quick to point out that Java is a *subset* of C++. The GCC pretty
much proved this, with their C++/Java compiler that can call back and
forth between the two.

Cheers,
mark

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