Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

[michaelslists at gmail.com (mikeiscool)]

On 11/9/06, SZALAY Attila <sasa at pheniscidae.tvnetwork.hu> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 10:20 +1100, mikeiscool wrote:
> > You can definately get appropriate information via the stack trace
> > with java's exception handling. It's strange to see you say debugging
> > is _eaiser_ in c, typically people find it far easier in a managed
> > language :)
>
> People are different. :))
>
> I personally want to know what happens and I don't believe anything waht
> I can't see. In C I can see the assembly code what (I hope) is a
> deterministic thing. An interpreter is to big (to me) to think about it
> as a deterministic thing. And yes, with ``normal'' bugs a managed
> language could give me more possibility to find the place of the
> problem. But I want to hope, that we don't commit normal bugs. :)

So basically you are expecting the only thing to go wrong on your
program is to be bugs in the VM? Be it java or c#? I find that really
strange. Sure, there have been bugs in the JVM/C# VM but just the same
there have been bugs in windows that will affect your c programs. I
really don't see that being a feasible/likely enough scenario to not
use one of these languages.


> And with mysterious bugs, when you cannot reproduce it in a test system,
> just the costumer some hundred miles away, I think that the stability of
> the compiled code (and the core file what may created) is give more more
> chance to find the right place.

Right exactly, and the fact that you have a stable VM instead of a
strange-patched-level of windows/linux os gives you a stable platform.

-- mic