Re: Language war

Posted by Sadruddin Rejeb-3 on May 15, 2002; 2:16pm
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Language-war-tp2066p2067.html

Hi everyone,

IMHO, it seems quite obvious that free/open-source libraries, aiming to
become
standards (and thus, to be portable across different architectures), should
be
implemented using open standards and languages. Apart from being efficient,
C++
has compilers for most architectures and is defined by an international
standardization committee. Java is definitely a very nice language, but it
is
still strongly attached to Sun. Worst, there is no mature open-source JVM
(apart perhaps from Kaffe), at least not for non-intel architectures (but I
haven't tried gcj either). Finally, as far as C# is concerned, even though
it is standardized by ECMA, there are for the moment no viable compilers
other
than Microsoft's...

Sad

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