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. > > -- > Cheers, Ceterum censeo, Caldera delenda est. > Rick Moen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > 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 -- 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
