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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy?
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To: David A. Lethe who wrote (18269)10/31/1997 10:30:00 AM
From: Paul Fiondella  Read Replies (2) of 42771
 
Applications written in C slower than JAVA

Yes this is the conventional wisdom.

However you must admit that at the low end of the application spectrum most people program directly in languages like VISUAL BASIC or if they are in the IBM camp they use a program generator like VISUALAGE and touch up the code.

When I was at Bell Labs I became convinced that the speed of most application programs is not dependant upon the efficiency of the language used but upon the structure of the program being written.
In other words most of the efficiency is lost to sloppy code or programming errors ranging from the algorithm chosen to the program design.

Since most ordinary programmers write sloppy code and most non-professional applications do not demand critical speed, it is irrelevant what language these programmers write in from the point of view of efficiency. In fact what is most important is that the language be simple and understandable (as in BASIC) so they can manage to acquire sufficient skill to program.

JAVA serves that purpose at the low end now dominated by BASIC.
One can carve out a series of applications at the low end that would appeal to NOVL's 3.X customers.

The problem with JAVA is that it is perceived as an Internet language for doing web apps and not as a low end substitue for BASIC in a new net centric programming era.

Thus far despite my every attempt to convince everyone from Schmidt on down that they should look at JAVA in the context of a LOW END SERVER, it would appear they haven't either understood the problem or done anything about it.

From a fundamentals point of view the reason I do not own any of this stock is the failure of Schmidt to produce a low end JAVA based server product.

I do not know why Denice left but I'm sure it had something to do with just these discussions.
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