[aleprok]

I know it's not always about the language choice, but it does matter too. Java for example requires easily 2 to 20 times more memory compared to c++? So why do we exchange we few fine lines of code for that memory consumption and easier cross-platform distribution?

Ugh.. Polling can seriously eat some resources for activity which really does not need to happen. :P

The worth of a programmer is completely another topic.

[grantph]

I disagree. If you're using Java properly then your data structures should be similar to that of C++. I've programmed assembly language, byte level machine code, C, C++, Java, C#, etc. They're all fundamentally the same. You can always use various compilers to dump to native too to overcome interpreter problems. Technique is what matters.

[aleprok]

Duh. Of course you can use compilers to dump to native, but then why no-one is doing it? They lose the power of the jre cross-platform support, which is pretty much all of the hype of Java and argument of pretty much every developer who I have asked why they are using Java for the project instead of C++.

Yeah. I have used asm, c, c++, java, php, python, etc too. Though C# is something I will never touch because of the monstrosity developer behind it.