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I am curious what kind of non-technical uses for Java you are talking about?

• woodman 11y ago
  s/purposes/political reason/g Several years ago I faced a problem that was extremely computationally intensive, basically the travelling salesman problem [0]. So I wrote the solution in c, fully documented it with a nice config file for all the knobs and the most beautiful makefile I've ever seen. When I presented the work it was as if I had brought a dead cat into the office. They ended up using it as a reference implementation and rewriting it in java, because "We are an Oracle shop" after all. Unsurprisingly the java version didn't work so great, not because java is a bad language, but because it wasn't well suited for the specific problem - it is much more difficult to write java code that can exercise the processor cache the was c code can. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem