[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: FFMPEG code a mess

[Måns Rullgård]

G?bor Farkas <gabor at nekomancer.net> writes:

> M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> G?bor Farkas <gabor at nekomancer.net> writes:
>>
>>>M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>>>
>>>>G?bor Farkas <gabor at nekomancer.net> writes:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Hi
>>>>>>On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 01:50:22PM -0600, Mike Melanson wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Rich Felker wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>No, you're just a baka who can't read code.. The reason it's
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>	Maybe we're being too hard on the sciatl.com guy. Based on his
>>>>>>>email and every OO/C++/Java FAQ I have ever read, I think a
>>>>>>>complete OO rewrite could magically solve every shortcoming that
>>>>>>>FFmpeg has. Indeed, it's high time for FFmpeg++.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>java solves all problems you never realized where there at all, and
>>>>>>replaces them with problems you will never be able to forget
>>>>>
>>>>>;)
>>>>>
>>>>>please don't fall into the same mistake as the original poster
>>>>>(he thought that OOP is the only answer. don't think that OOP is
>>>>>always the wrong answer)
>>>>
>>>>OOP is sometimes quite useful.  However, Java is always wrong.
>>>>
>>>
>>>now this is a message where i cannot decide if it is truly your
>>>opinion (as suggestged by the first sentence) or a joke (as suggested
>>>by the second sentence) ;)
>>>
>>>if it's your opinion, why do you think that java's such a bad choice
>>>for an OOP language?
>> Java can be handy sometimes, but there are a few things that annoy
>> me:
>> - Everything has to be an object.
>
> int/char/boolean and stuff like that does not have to be an object.

That's surely an oversight.

> but isn't it the same in C?
> you have some basic types and then you have to create structs. in
> which way is it different from classes?

Functions.

>> - No unsigned types.
>
> why do you need them? what would  you like to do with them?

Same reason you'd need them anywhere: to store unsigned numbers.

>> - The java.lang.Void class.
>
> wow. i didn't even know that such a class existed. how did you meet him? ;)

I don't remember how I came across it, and I can't imagine ever using it.

>> Have you ever used Java for anything serious?
>
> yes, i worked as a java developer for 2-3 years..

Just asking.  Sometimes people have just finished some book about the
wonders of Java, and took it all a bit too literally.

-- 
M?ns Rullg?rd
mru at inprovide.com