Keith Lea says, "I was sick of hearing people say Java was slow, when I know it’s pretty fast, so I took the benchmark code for C++ and Java from the now outdated Great Computer Language Shootout and ran the tests myself." The results are available on his web site at http://kano.net/javabench/ in an HTML document […]
In an article, “Hack Out the Useless Extras" in New Scientist magazine (June 6, 2004,. Vol. 182, No. 2450, page. 26), Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab founding chairman, 1999 Borland Conference Philadelphia keynote speaker, and author of The New York Times bestselling “Being Digital“, says “The speed and performance of software worsens with each succeeding release because of featuritis, […]
We keep hearing how fewer and fewer women are entering (or staying in) engineering and computer science programs at universities and colleges. Carnegie Mellon and other schools have been studying the trends and issues and prescribing solutions. At our own (close to Borland’s Scott’s Valley offices) University of California at Santa Cruz an undergraduate student […]