[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The original goal was to create a truly cross-platform, object-oriented, user-
> friendly, scriptable, development tool. Java is object-oriented and cross-
> platform, perhaps it is more sensible, economically, to spend development
> efforts on something like JavaCard. Picture all of the HyperTalk scripting
> language and our familiar buttons, fields, cards, backgrounds and stacks... in
> Java. Such an app would easily create cross-platform standalones. It would
> run on MacOSX, or MacOS8, in addition to Windows because Java interpreters
> exist on Wintel and Mac machines, in addition to Unix machines where Java, and
> incidentally, MacOSX, spring forth. Perhaps this is the direction development
> efforts may go, if we're lucky.
< disclaimer > just my own opinion </ disclaimer >
By having xTalk free (like Java) we can compete with Java. If we have an xTalk
compiler that runs on any platform and is faster than Java we will have a product
that many developers will be interested in. Making a JavaCard will not generate
half as much excitement in the developer community, and excitements what we want.
We want everybody to be as excited as we are about xTalk. I think xTalk is a
hellofalot better than Java and less intimidating for people new to programming.
It doesn't have the object orientated features of Java, but it might one day.
< apologies > that sounded like a pep talk for some testosterone based sporting
event </ apologies >
Just me again,
Andre
