Re: The Joy of Java

Scott Brickner writes:

I don't understand what you mean by "insufficiently powerful". It's as expressively powerful as most high-level languages, and computationally Turing equivalent. It's lack of power seems entirely in the performance arena, which may be solved, eventually.

Java applications can't save files to disk or use data files on disk. If you were, for instance, buying two CPU weeks of idle time on some machines, you would need stuff like checkpointing or the ability to save intermediate results. Perry