(...) The point about C++ is that you can overload the array indexing mechanism and build a 'class' to implement arrays that does array bounds checking (or implements the "array" as a linked list or stores it on disk or whatever else you can (...) (19 years ago, 17-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
(...) You seem to be confusing "Java" with "Javascript", they are not at all the same thing. It's unfortunate that Javascript is named to suggest that it is somehow similar. Javascript in a browser (it can only execute within a browser) is (...) (19 years ago, 17-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
(...) No - absolutely not. I program with both and am fully aware of the differences. Java was ALSO designed to stay in the sand-box when initially started from there. (...) Java is faster where someone has already written suitable libraries. (...) (19 years ago, 17-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)