When you were trying to hack with Java, did you use it in an integrated
development environment or from the command line with makefiles and such? An
IDE makes it much easier to play with. I have used Tcl/Tk and Java (not to
mention C, C++ with and without COM, ksh, csh, Logo, BASIC, QuickBASIC,
Visual Basic all versions, FORTRAN, Mathematica, and Pascal) and I find Java
with IDE the easiest of the lot both as a general purpose programming
language and as a quick hacking/scripting language, and the best of the lot
except that it doesn't run as fast as C and compiled kin.

-----Original Message-----
From: Job M. van Zuijlen 
To: Csound List 
Date: Wednesday, February 24, 1999 10:33 PM
Subject: Re: if...


>It may be funny, but I don't really like Java and I wouldn't like it to
>replace the current Csound syntax.  I like to hack and experiment, for
>instance, and I had a hard time with Java in that respect, as opposed to
>working with Tk/Tcl, Perl or other scripting languages.
>
>Job van Zuijlen
>
>Michael Gogins wrote:
>>
>[snip]
>> The opcodes would be
>> fast because written in C, and the language for writing instruments would
be
>> easy because it would just be Java.
>>
>>