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Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]
From: sasa at pheniscidae.tvnetwork.hu (SZALAY Attila)
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:59:04 +0100
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 10:47 -0500, der Mouse wrote:
Perhaps I'm missing something. Why do you have to abandon C? You mention C++, C#, and Java, but no other languages; is there some reason you have to use a language that tries to be object-oriented?
To be object-oriented. The truth is, that it's not my own project. And there are programmers with more knowledge and ones with less. And the previous program (more than 200k lines of code) is not maintainable because the hidden link between ``objects'' and a lot of other thing. And I think, that I can more easily control the architect of the code.
Also, you have said nothing about what the tradeoffs involved are. Since this is sc-l, I assume security is involved; what does this code need to be secure against?
This code is part of a security application. And (I think) it's not acceptable from a security application to contains security flaws. :) (And not, I'm write here not because of security tradeoffs but because there were the thread that nobody should use C++. (Because there are C# and Java) and I were a little bit frightened that I chose wrong. (There were other candidates and C# and Java was in, but we chose C++ instead of this. And if this choices are equivalent in every other aspects, then I want to choose the safest one. So because of this I asked that C++ is really could be abandoned (for me) or not.)
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