by Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.spamfilter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Apr 18, 2008 at 01:31 PM
Roedy Green wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:35:08 -0700 (PDT), TheBigPJ
> <TheBigPJ@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
> said :
>
>> I am wondering if it is worth my time and effort to learn it? Or
>> should I avoid it and learn C/C++ graphics instead?
>
> If you want to write multiplatform apps, learn the Java API. If you
> want to write high performance apps for a single platform, learn the
> C++ API. If you are a novice, you will probably find any Java API
> less "hairy" than a quirky tuned-to-one-platform C++ API and thus
> easier to learn first.
>
> Multi-platformness tends to simplify APIs.
*Or* overly complicate it. Luckily for Java, the tendency was to
simplify :-)
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