Re: Compare Swarm with Repast

[Russell Standish]

Gulyas Laszlo wrote:
> > 2) Has too many incompatible versions
> 
> I don't understand this. I've been using Java since 1.0
> and never had incompatibility issues. Also, I've been
> using it on Solaris, Linux, Windows and OS X, but the
> largest incompatibility was about the size of screen fonts...
> 

Lets just say that the last experience I had of Java about 2 years ago
on both Linux and Irix was not a happy one. By contrast, I've had
pretty smooth sailing with gcc. Its possibly a familiarity thing - I
always have disasterous experiences whenver I use a Windows platform too.

> > 3) Lacks operator overloading
> 
> This is the religious kind of problem, I think. I never liked
> that in C++.
> 

Why impose your religious preferences on others? For my line of work,
operator overloading is essential for readable code. It is for this
reason I never took to Objective C or Swarm. I'm hoping to rectify
this with a C++/Swarm interface, but keep you posted.

> > 4) Lacks generic programming
> 
> True. But you'd probably need a rather large project to use that.
> As far as I remember, it wasn't 101 in Objective-C either.
> 

Try Ecolab. Its quite a modest project at about 12,000 lines, but
generic programming is used to good effect. In fact, parts of it need
to be rewritten using GP, as they're a bugger to maintain as they are.




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