On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 07:58:41AM +0530, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
One thought: the exploits seem to target the memory handling techniques of
the browsers. What if the browsers are written in Java? Well AFAIK Java
lets programmers concentrate on the program at hand than the memory
management part of it. Also Java browsers will be platform independent.
The only thing Java does different is garbage collection. So you don't
have free() or "delete" in Java. But, I think badly written Java code
will crash or do unexpected things.
Looking at Eclipse I feel that Java applications are on par with others in
terms of speed.
Honestly, Java blows! I've not come across native compiled Java so
I can't comment on that, though I have high hopes on it.
Nosferatu
--
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
A '49er walked into the saloon at Bloody Gulch. He'd been prospecting for
more than a year.
"Hey! Y'got any wimmen around here?"
"Nope," the bartender replied, "But there's George in the back room."
"I don't go for that kind of thing," the prospector scowled. He
downed his drink and left disgustedly.
A few months passed before the miner found his way down the mountain again.
He stumbled into the tavern and asked the bartender, "Any wimmen pass through
this part of town?"
"Nope. Nary a one. But we still got George in the back room."
Angry, the miner shouted, "I told you I don't go for that kind of
thing," and turned on his heel and left.
Within a year he came back from his mine again. With a wild look on
his face he re-entered the saloon. Leaning over the bar he whispered to the
bartender, "If I was to go into the back room with George, how many people
'round here would know?"
"Oh," the bartender said, scratching his chin, "'bout seven, I guess."
"Seven!?"
"Yep. You, me, George, and the four men holdin' him down. You see,
George don't go for that kind of thing neither."
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