Re: JRE version requirement

Quoting RepRap Forum Mailer :

>> From what I've seen Python is a much nicer language than Java. It
>> will be interesting to see if it supplants Java eventually.

It's OK. But it is encumbered by one overriding and crippling original
design decision: that code blocks should be decided purely by
indentation. I originally considered Python for RepRap, but the
indentation thing is so utterly dumb (just like tabs in Makefiles) that
I voted against it.

Best wishes

Adrian

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Adrian Bowyer wrote:
>>> From what I've seen Python is a much nicer language than Java. It
>>> will be interesting to see if it supplants Java eventually.
>>>
>
> It's OK. But it is encumbered by one overriding and crippling original
> design decision: that code blocks should be decided purely by
> indentation. I originally considered Python for RepRap, but the
> indentation thing is so utterly dumb (just like tabs in Makefiles) that
> I voted against it.
>


Yes I also find some of its features compelling but otherwise it offends
me to my core

For languages of that sort, Ruby probably has more going for it, I would
say.

However for RepRap, I think Java is still a good portable choice that
also has potential for embedding in simpler hardware. C++ would have
been my other contender.

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Simon McAuliffe wrote:

> However for RepRap, I think Java is still a good portable choice that
> also has potential for embedding in simpler hardware. C++ would have
> been my other contender.

Yes - I think we made the right decision. Having written whole discs
full of C++ source over the last 20 years, and having now switched to
Java, I must say I prefer the latter. (Though I do occasionally get a
subconscious soldering-iron-wielders twitch along the lines of, "What in
God's name is that system garbage collector doing with my data, and how
do I know that its reference counting code - if that's what it does - is
not too stupid to make a memory leak when two of my types cross-point in
a deadly embrace?" But that's just like some old fool driver from
before WWII thinking that automatic cars are haunted...)

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Adrian

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> It's OK. But it is encumbered by one overriding
> and crippling original
> design decision: that code blocks should be
> decided purely by
> indentation.

Oh Lord! How bizarre!