Re: sockets library

From: bill_kempf (williamkempf_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-12-21 11:13:11

--- In boost_at_y..., "Jani Kajala" <jani_at_s...> wrote:
> > Seriously, though, even if you consider iostreams to be a bad 
design,
> > the Java streams are MUCH worse (at least from a C++ design
> > perspective).  They are a huge pain to use and result in even more
> > overhead than iostreams.
> 
> It's true that there is no single big fat stream class which would 
be
> immediately there to use, but filter design of Java io is more 
flexible,
> efficient and definitely better than iostreams. Using output of one 
stream as in
> input to another is a very powerful concept. You should not 
underestimate the
> powers of the dark side.

I don't.  But I find the design to be incredibly difficult to use no 
matter what benefit can be perceived in it.  Further, like almost all 
Java APIs, it's underspecified leaving you with very dangerous areas 
where you have no idea what a given implementation is going to do.

Bill Kempf