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"Peter" == Peter L Peres <plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org> writes:

Peter> On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Greg Franks wrote: >> >>>>> "Marcus" == Marcus Brubaker <marcus.brubaker-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> >> writes: Marcus> To each their own opinion but if you want to do OOP then Marcus> there really isn't a better language out there than Java. >> You forgot Smalltalk. Everything is an object, even integers. Peter> Yes, and the processing overhead for an addition is about Peter> the same as for a square root extraction. You're thinking of an old smalltalk (or bad implementation perhaps...). The interpreter should do somthing like... if ( x & 8000000 ) { its an integer... } else { its an object... } Otoh, sqrt() isn't as pokey as it used to be either :-) -- __@ Greg Franks <| _~@ __O _`\<,_ Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |O\ -^\<;^\<, (*)/ (*) (*)--(*)%---/(*) "Where do you want to go today?" Outside. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml