one good reason to hate c

[rachana rayaguda]

hii....
Recently i started learning java and i liked it a lot.mostly because it doesn't have any pointers, and deallocation of memory
and also because of swing.
How intertwined are c and java?
Tell me one good reason why one should switch over to java from c?
(though i know java doesnt have any os dependent features)
Is there anything 'graphical' about c?
[ October 19, 2007: Message edited by: rachana rayaguda ]

[Jesper de Jong]

C and Java are not intertwined at all. You do not need to know anything about C or C++ to be able to use Java. When people at Sun designed the Java language, they did look at C++, and they deliberately left out the features that make C++ hard.

Generally, you should use the right tool for the job you have to do. Java is a great general-purpose language, but for low-level systems programming, C is probably more suitable.

There is nothing "graphical" about C, but neither is there anything "graphical" about Java. If you want to build GUIs and work with graphics, you're going to need libraries that provide the functionality you need. Fortunately, Java comes with a very nice library which contains lots of functionality to build GUIs (Swing) and work with graphics.

[rachana rayaguda]

yeah...i rammed my brain to find out 'why i like Java?' but could not come up with a valid answer
so i was comparing c and Java(languages i know), their pluses and minuses
Anyways thanks for the reply.