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I am wanting a programming language that I can use to create utilities and other basic programs, will Java work for this and not have limitations or should I be trying to learn another language?
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Posted 08 June 2011 - 12:09 AM
Alexander
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Your question is very vague, Java should be fine for a majority of applications you could develop.
Java does not have close ties to the system however as it is often ran under a virtual machine, so if you are expecting to work with hardware or your own memory then you could forget it, although I suspect you will not need much of that in your basic programs (especially as Java can do this for you).
It would help for you to describe your programs.
Java does not have close ties to the system however as it is often ran under a virtual machine, so if you are expecting to work with hardware or your own memory then you could forget it, although I suspect you will not need much of that in your basic programs (especially as Java can do this for you).
It would help for you to describe your programs.
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Posted 08 June 2011 - 12:10 PM
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Alexander said:
Your question is very vague, Java should be fine for a majority of applications you could develop.
Java does not have close ties to the system however as it is often ran under a virtual machine, so if you are expecting to work with hardware or your own memory then you could forget it, although I suspect you will not need much of that in your basic programs (especially as Java can do this for you).
It would help for you to describe your programs.
Java does not have close ties to the system however as it is often ran under a virtual machine, so if you are expecting to work with hardware or your own memory then you could forget it, although I suspect you will not need much of that in your basic programs (especially as Java can do this for you).
It would help for you to describe your programs.
I'm more than likely not going to deal with memory, but I do want to be able to open other programs that are not java like Chrome.exe. Is java able to open .exe's? Also another big one I'm going to use it for is GUI interface, I'm sure it does have a GUI interface but I haven't tried eclipse yet, I'm working with Textpad right now.
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Posted 08 June 2011 - 03:46 PM
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UnknownKnowledge said:
I'm more than likely not going to deal with memory, but I do want to be able to open other programs that are not java like Chrome.exe. Is java able to open .exe's? Also another big one I'm going to use it for is GUI interface, I'm sure it does have a GUI interface but I haven't tried eclipse yet, I'm working with Textpad right now.
Java should be more sufficient in terms of GUI support, for example C++ has no GUI libraries at all while Java has many.
You could start exes and do various things, i.e. Runtime (Java 2 Platform SE v1.4.2) although you likely would not want to use Java for a web browser however. A web browser would require a lot of work, so you may have to implement not your own solutions, i.e. .NET gui and webkit.
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