Embedded In Electronic Design: Java Matters.(use of Java language in embedded applications)

From: Electronic Design | Date: December 3, 2001| Author: Wong, William | Copyright information

I love programming languages. They're fun. I've worked everything from Algol, APL, Lisp, and Visual Basic to Forth. C got a lot of use, but it lacked production-grade, object-oriented features. After playing with Smalltalk, I was hooked on OOPs (object-oriented programming languages). When C++ first came along, I thought I had it made.

C++ is definitely a workhorse. But its runtimes can be quite large, and it inherits a lot of baggage from C. On the positive side, C++ gi...

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