[Bf-taskforce25] Netbeans + Blender Source

[jgray at grayengineers.com]

Thank you, Sven.  Very well said.

The JVM/JRE and Java compilers are written in C (true, I think there
was an experiment to write Java in Java, but it failed).  Why?  Even
the Java developers know that C generally runs faster.

A friend explained to me over lunch how the examples showing Java as
faster than C work.  They are only for particular data structures that
are accessed repeatedly in a certain pattern.  Java can re-arrange the
structure to improve access speed.  But C can do the same thing.  And
Blender wouldn't use those structures.

As far as being easier to develop...  Have you ever tried to modify a
huge Java program?  It gets just as hard as a huge C program.  The
language has little to do with manageability of huge code bases.  The
reason it becomes a mess and hard to work with is that it grows with
time.  One patch on top of another makes code hard to follow in any
language.

Rigid standards for documentation and coding styles are far more
important than the choice of language.  But when you have a list of
ten critical bug fixes that you are getting hounded on, and have spent
2 hours debugging already, it's hard to spend another half-hour on
documentation.

The core developers are doing a great job.  Thank you!

"There comes a time in every product cycle when you must shoot the
engineer and ship the product." -- unknown.

> From: Sven von Brand <svbrand at alumnos.inf.utfsm.cl>
> I'm a rookie here too, but, have some experience in participating in
> other development lists, and you should be grateful with everyone in
> this list, because they have been the nicest when answering you're
> questions and suggestions.
>
> Now, from rookie to rookie, let me tell you some things:
>
> ... (remainder removed)