realization

[r_transpose_p]

So after working on a simulation platform for my robots in Java for some time, and having done large projects in C++, I am slowly coming to the conclusion that "Java is not significantly easier than C++"

Some caveats :

1. I am comparing templatized C++ with STL and Boost to Java with Generics. Day to day use of either language changes radically if

Comments

[bk1e]

How Java’s Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere raises some interesting points. Then again, most programmers doing floating point math in C or C++ tend to ignore the same issues that the designers of Java ignores, so maybe it only matters if you really know what you're doing?

[r_transpose_p]

Possibly, but its hard to cut through the needless vitriol of that article to get to the real meat of the complaints.