Because responsible folks don't listen to Moinak Ghosh's Belenix
minimize_Grub_bootImage - approach?
(plus because the previous reliable/fast/memory-saving "suninstall"
installer had to be replaced by whatever thing that somehow needed to be
java based [for whatever marketing reasons], not to speak of replacing good
old Admintool with the "grand" smc, which takes a night to load [if it
finds its toolbox at all, on that day]
p.s. I'm myself semi-fluent in JAVA (having implemented a few trivial
mathematical algorithms in JAVA, at university [non-graphical cmd line
applications plus a number of simple applets]), so nothing against JAVA
itself. Make the SCJP and JD exams soon.
But has the installer to be JAVA based ???
Why, in technical aspects?
Don't even get me started on Java.
Of all the things that ever came out of the company, Java is one thing Sun
Microsystems should NOT be proud about! It's bloatware. It's complicated
even for the simplest of tasks. And in a lot of situations, it's just plain
SLOW. And did I mention it's complex bloatware?
Who in their right mind develops a language that is INTERPRETED, pardon,
"Just In Time compiled", in this day and age? I mean, we might as well just
have gone back to BASIC from the '70s, that was converted to bytecode
"tokens" too.
Bah. Any good C coder worth their money can be as fast or faster in writing
stuff in C than "developing" in Java. It's rediculous. And they're pushing
it, that's the worst thing. Every IT-charlatan thinks it's the best thing
since sliced bread.
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