[ale] Introduction

[jwl at sgi.com (Jim Lynch)]

Jason Vinson wrote:

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> Geoffrey wrote:
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> | ... The dream job!  You're confused though, it's the Java that is
> | annoying you.  I mean come on, try subtracting a character from a
> | character in order to get the numeric difference.  C ? yes, Java, I
> |  don't think so..
> |
> Maybe i'm misunderstanding the problem, but are you saying that this
> is annoying:
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> Character.getNumericValue('z')-Character.getNumericValue('a')
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> Lengthy yes... but doable (and not that hard!)
>
> :)
> Jason

Java is like COBOL, mighty wordy but it makes up for that deficiency by 
being slow.

Jim.