On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 09:10 +0000, Robert Greig wrote: > On 13/03/07, Andrew Stitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > One thing worth noting is that Java is much less common on Linux than > > either Python or Ruby, as the licensing made it hard to ship the Sun > > implementation. Whereas there are very good implementations of both > > Python and Ruby for Windows. > > I don't understand this point. > > Java is freely available on linux for download although it isn't > included on distros. Python and Ruby are freely available on Windows > although they aren't included in the installation by default (i.e. are > not shipped by Microsoft). Is this not the same situation? > > I don't really have an opinion on which language the controller should > be written in. >
Uhm, You're probably correct there - I guess what I'm really saying is that I'd just prefer it that way for (my) convenience when developing the C++ broker, as not needing java would be one less thing to worry about! Andrew
