Re: ::scr horns of a dilemma

[Dave Hodgkinson <daveh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Simon Kinahan" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > Java phones are *terrible*. Java is terrible (at least/especially for
> > phones. interpreted OO languages are heavy and phones are, err, not).
> > J2me is a particularly bad form of Java.
> 
> Java is not, in general, interpreted, and OO languages are no heavier than
> non-oo languages in any fundamental way. 

Not convinced. Adding a vtable to support inheritance and stuff adds a
layer of indirection to any calls into objects. Minor, but it's
there. At least between C and C++.

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