On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Rick Moen wrote: .. > > But I think Java gets the farthest in lip service to binary > > portability. :P > > Python scripts give it more than a run for its money, although they're > not "binary".
I'm a Perl person myself. :| (let's not get into ANOTHER war) Perl6 or so I hear will have a usable compiler. Binary, yet not bytecode. Perl converts its source into bytecode internally anyway, so I don't see the compelling advantages for Java. .. > somehow to make it inherently superior to Python, Java, and Ruby. But > then, I remembered that practically all of them are proprietary software > people, such that obscuring source code isn't just a side-effect of > compilation, but actually a business objective. Well that does seem to be the case. --- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
