On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 17:35, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Orlando Andico ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> 
> > That's not exactly right. Come, now.  :)
> > Tomcat runs just as well on Windows and Unix.
> 
> Note:  It has to be debugged in duplicate, for each release.

No, no, that's no freaking true man...Tell that to the Apache people.

> 
> However, by far the bigger portability problems involve codebases that
> include UI support.  Network daemons and middleware pose fewer problems
> in that area, inherently.

Not even true either. I developed and deployed GUI-based apps (AWT,
Swing etc.) and there's no portability problems. Where did you get all
these bad scoops? 

> 
> I used to find it confusing that Java proponents considered it an
> _advantage_ to be able to hand out only bytecode, and considered this
> 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.

Is the business objective of proliferating Java a bad practice? We need
that kind of business very badly here you know.
> 
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