Thread: Share those tiny little (or mighty big) programs you could not live without.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Java is actually a great language, it's the lack of a true compiler that bugs me. GNU made one, but it doesn't work all that well, it's not optimized. Sun forces that virtual SPARC machine on you. Because of that I won't touch it, I use C++, Cocoa, or C for everything.

Java is pass by reference. You shouldn't use straight pointers to simulate pass-by-reference in C++ - that's poor style