Godfrey, my point being that Java can be used in order to create *reasonably* portable and *reasonably* cross platform code. After all we're talking educational project here, not fully blown industrial development effort.
I agree with your analysis, but in order for Thibouille to concentrate on the problem in hand and not on surrounding technical issues (which are more valid for commercial project rather than for educational one) I think Java will do nicely. And again, I agree with what you're saying ;-). Boris Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > Java is an interesting solution to cross platform implementation > language, but a can of worms in many ways. Java language interpreters > installed on client systems seems to be all over the map version- > wise, which affects compatibility, features, portability, etc. > Writing and testing Java code gets complicated for this reason, and > it doesn't save you from much effort if you want to produce an > application which looks and works well for each particular OS platform. > > I have several commercially available applications written in Java. > Only one or two of them are what I'd consider to be really good, the > others do their job but are clunky for one reason or another. > > There's much more reason to write in Java for server-side > applications, where the number of installations is much lower and the > system administrators are knowledgeable enough to install and > configure the correct version of the language interpreter. > > (I worked for Sun Microsystems for a couple of years in the Java > development team doing licensee support, before my final stint at > Apple working with the development tools team... I've seen the worst > and the best of all of it.) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
