Have you seen the recent speed comparisons of java and c++, java is catching up and pulling ahead in some areas, even including jvm loading time. see http://www.idiom.com/~zilla/Computer/javaCbenchmark.html and http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5602. second, what does speed have to do with if the language is good for learning cs? Josh Close wrote: >On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:21:39 -0500, Josh Trutwin ><josh at trutwins.homeip.net> wrote: > > >>On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 07:58:38 -0500 (CDT) >>Adam Maloney <adam at whee.org> wrote: >> >> >> >>>>The U's C++ programming class [for engineers/non-majors] used >>>>Deitel & Deitel's C++ book. >>>> >>>> >>>Interesting - I was a CSci major, but never took C++. >>> >>> >>Back in my day (only about 10 years ago) we did C/C++. I'm teaching >>one of the beginning programming courses at Metrostate this year and >>it's all in Java. Cannot say for sure if I really agree with that or >>not for teaching basic programming. >> >>Josh >> >> > > >I think java is a waste of time for csci. As a beginning programming >course it could teach the fundamentals, but I've heard of schools >wanting to switch from C++ to java for csci majors..... Java is just >too slow..... I can't see it being used for much more than web >applications IMHO. > >-Josh > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org >Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list