Re: Need some Help with Advocacy re: Java vs. Perl

[Simon Cozens]

David Grove (lists.advocacy):
>Java was certainly not the first cross platform language, though it claims
>to be, nor will it be the last. It is, however, the most inefficient and
>overmarketed.
>>
>> Java sells because those stuck in the closed source world don't have
>> to distribute their code. (Yes, I know, Perl bytecode. But realistically.)

Thanks, that was, uh, completely orthogonal to my point.

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