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

[sasa at pheniscidae.tvnetwork.hu (SZALAY Attila)]

Hi All!

On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 23:23 +1100, mikeiscool wrote:
> Hold the phone ... What debugging problems? What _specific_ speed
> issues? I'd be really surprised if your project couldn't be resolved
> with java; what specific problems are you facing? What tests have you
> run/consider to show that java's supposed "speed issues" will give you
> trouble? If it's just xml processing I'd say efficient data structures
> are what you care about, so java can help you there.

1. Debug

When the program do something nasty or unwanted thing then in C I could
do a lot of thing to find what happened.

For example I could make the program dropping a core and analyze it at
home. This needed because the program used some places where I cannot go
into. And there were bugs in program which is definitely a race
condition what is hard to reproduce. So it's not enough to write the
steps to reproduce the bug.

And I'm not sure that I can get the complete state of the program (and
just the program) so I can detect where is the problem, even when the
problem is in the compiler. I think it's more harder in java language.

2. Speed

Yes, it's maybe an outdated information but for example if there are a
java plugin in my web browser (not javascript, java, for example the
terminal plugin in some management page of AMD64 servers) or the
``famous'' Hungarian social web page iWIW, which was programmed in JAVA
and was slow like Hell.

And in this program there are some functions, which is in the corner of
usage about speed. (Sometimes in the other side :( ), So any speed
degradation is a PIA.