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Java != JVMJava != JVMPosted Mar 18, 2004 12:05 UTC (Thu) by hjernemadsen (subscriber, #5676)In reply to: Java != JVM by joib Parent article: Will Mono Become the Preferred Platform for Linux Development? (O'ReillyNet)
Write any non-trivial program in Java and it's almost certain that you'll make extensive use of the collections classes. Well gee, say goodbye to your type safety. The only thing that static typing gives you here is lots of type casts all over the place (Ugh!). But that is not a problem with type safety, but rather a problem with the Java language. I you do the same thing in C++ you can use the STL-library, which amongst other things provides lists and sets of any type, with guaranteed type safety. So no type casts are needed, and you are guaranteed that you can only add the elements to the list, if they have the correct type. In my experience having type safety catches many programming errors.
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