On 2 Sep 2002 at 20:10, Rahul Kumar wrote: > On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 12:53:36AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Perl gives a lot more flexibility than Java, and cross platform portability as >well. > > Do educate me (offline preferred as this is really getting OT), on how > Perl is more cross-platform portable than Java. (Mind u, this isnt a > challenge, just would like to know!)
One example.. We have a rational suit of products deployed in company.. Doesn't work in anything else but IE. Shameless footer says netscape will give problems.. Apparently works in netscape 4.7x but not in mozilaa 1.x.. Thankfully my opera does not have java installed. On perl side, my product depends upon perl to ship on HP-UX and windows. It's been doing so since 1995 on HP-UX and since 1998 on Windows. Actually it existed long before that the way it is but these are the confirm dates.. Problem is no java but incompatible implementations of java..which blows out promise of platform independence.. Thankfully even sun can not ship all consistent JVMs and JREs. I have many jars for bioinformatics material which refuse to acknowledge mouse in linux under any JRE but work fine with any JRE on windows.. Call that platform independence.. One more example, a java GUI client I work on, does not work on HP-UX. Not that anybody bothers but still.. hot keys for menus never worked.. And we had a big headache porting to java 1.2 and keeping windows and HP-UX client in sync behaviourally.. java is platform independent.. but the scope of platform independence is limited to it's bugs.. I know lots of things I said here are like apples to oranges but that was just a part of picture I see everyday.. Bye Shridhar -- QOTD: "I don't think they could put him in a mental hospital. On the other hand, if he were already in, I don't think they'd let him out." ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
