One last comment from me is all you will get on this.
>> Just for the record. This is not true. If Microsoft hadn't created a
>> Monopoly, the market would have produced cross platform languages
>> such as java, perl, or python much more quickly. Different OSs
>> wouldn't be the problem that it is today.
It's like a war. If you weren't there in the trenches, you don't
really know what it was like. It was bad. You would spend a year
or two developing software, and hope that the machine that you
targetted it for was still commercially viable when you were done.
And that it still ran the same software, or hadn't had a ROM upgrade
that killed your app. I spent half a year porting a game to the
Amiga. Then it died. Oh well, whats six months of your life.
And Interpreted languages such as Java, Perl and Python are still
unable to provide decent speed, even on todays 1 Ghz machines.
Give me a good, tight compiler and a standard system to code to...
Ahh, it's so nice being a programmer nowadays.
Jaimi
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